<div dir="ltr">Oh, I said up front I was just dreaming... <div><br></div><div style>To be clear, I'm not asking you to do it, just saying that, in the context of other wishful items people were discussing, ARM would be nice :) </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Also, I understand the complete impracticality of porting something for three months that won't feed you or pay your rent. I just wish I had a more rounded skill set so I could take it on...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I think it would benefit the community as a whole, but it would be deeply destructive to the fragile balance you have now, and would be a compromise nobody could reasonably ask you to make... Without a suitcase of cash.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Michael Stauber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mstauber@blueonyx.it" target="_blank">mstauber@blueonyx.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dave,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I think you might be surprised. There are now over 1.2 million Raspberry<br>
> Pis in the world, and any supported distribution gets well promoted by<br>
> the site. One of the commonest requests is for a simple-to-use/maintain<br>
> LAMP stack, and I don't think it gets any better than BO.<br>
<br>
</div>You see, generally this is the kind of challenges that I'd really like<br>
to take on - in an ideal world: Just throw me the gear and let me lock<br>
myself up for a month or three and see what I can crank out. But then<br>
again: I doubt that it's commercially viable to go that route. If it's<br>
available free of charge, it might get a good reception, but will never<br>
pay off the development costs, nor the costs for maintaining it. And as<br>
soon as you attach a price tag to it, hardly anyone will buy it.<br>
<br>
I always had a faible for computers with a small footprint. Be it the<br>
various Mini-ITX boards, the RISC or ARM architecture. My first hands on<br>
exposure to the world of computing was actually a Sinclair ZX Spectrum<br>
(yes, rubber keys!), then the Schneider CPC, the C=64 and the Amiga,<br>
before it all went "IBM-compatible" (which is a contradiction in itself<br>
<g>) with the first 286. I find it still sad that the inherently much<br>
worse design ("IBM-compatible") won the race both on the consumer market<br>
as well as in the corporate world. But that's water down the drain.<br>
<br>
Yes, even today there there is a lot of good opportunities for RISC and<br>
ARM powered gear. However, I don't see much potential for BlueOnyx on<br>
things like the Raspberry Pi. The 512MB RAM are also a limiting factor,<br>
where it already from the start would make sense not to use Apache, but<br>
something with a lighter footprint.<br>
<br>
Ah, I already start dreaming of doing it <g>. But it would be three<br>
months of my life that I won't be getting back in any way or form. :-)<br>
<br>
It's also like Chris said: The current server hardware is cheap and I<br>
don't see people throwing their servers away to re-purchase them with a<br>
different architecture that (to the outside world) just does the same<br>
things a little more efficient and in a better way.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
With best regards<br>
<br>
Michael Stauber<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> "At present, not all the possibilities implied by the above are implemented."</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> -- Tony Firshman, 1999</font></p></div>
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