Excuse me, correction. Intel stopped making "desktop" boards (not motherboards) years ago. Rick Engebretson wrote: > Thanks for the tip. It really fits with something I was going to post; > the PC industry is in chaos and collapse. IBM and Linux to the rescue. I > have doubts it's so much about "The Cloud," as the article implies. > > Intel quit making motherboards a few years ago and is screwing around > with UEFI flavor of the month. They want to jam streaming graphics into > a multicore CPU that sucks hundreds of watts. Or they push their Nuc > line these days. > > Microsoft can't take care of satisfied Windows7 64 bit users anymore. > And, as is their habit, have their cash hungry palm out to degrade your PC. > > Yet, the development needs of a PC standard is accelerating greater than > ever. If you can't live without 10GB of RAM, TBytes disks, high > resolution LCD panels, 2GHz multi-core CPUs, fast internet, that run a > decade and swap out in a day...well, carry your selfie phone to the > shower with you. Industry needs a PC like a farmer needs a pick-up > truck, and Ford needs to keep making them. Or like USSteel needs to keep > making steel in the US. And the big players are saving all our asses > again, thank you. > > > Shawn Fertch wrote: >> Exactly why I'm not sure how this will turn out and not quite sure >> what to say. I'm concerned that IBM may change the focus of RHEL, and >> Linux in general by changing how involved with the community Red Hat >> has been. >> >> What will they do with competing technologies such as Big Fix and >> Satellite or Ansible? IBM hasn't always been good to the tecnologies >> they acquire over the years. I agree with you in that time will tell. >> >> All this being said, I'm surprised that IBM didn't acquire SuSE years >> ago with how deeply involved they were with it back then. >> >> -Shawn >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:21 PM r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com> wrote: >>> >>> RHEL has become the enterprise standard for Linux. This may become a >>> significant disruption to enterprise strategies. Time will tell. >>> >>> On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 15:09 -0500, Clug wrote: >>> >>> IBM have been supporting Linux for ages, and Red Hat are a commercial >>> entity who sell a commercial product as well as services. >>> >>> Unless you're a commercial entity yourself and use Red Hat's products >>> and >>> services, I don't think this will really affect you much, if at all. >>> >>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, Shawn Fertch wrote: >>> >>> >>> Not sure what to say... >>> >>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat >>> >>> >>> -Shawn >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >