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Google and ARM have for all practical purposes closed off the open source Linux ecosystem as far as mobile phones are concerned. You can't run any off the shelf
by throw2016 9y ago
Google and ARM have for all practical purposes closed off the open source Linux ecosystem as far as mobile phones are concerned. You can't run any off the shelf Linux on your phone without drivers.
I wonder what Microsoft will accomplish with ARM on the desktop? Are we going to regress decades to tightly closed drivers and systems? And the spectacle of open source devs struggling with ARM SOCs for years while the ball is kicked from vendor to ARM to Microsoft and back.
In effect lose the ability to run our own OS on our desktops and the incentive for people like Linus to develop an OS and the rich ecosystem it has spawned.
- zanny 9y agoI don't believe Linus has ever developed Linux to be a consumer kernel. For the first ~15 years it took over servers, and still rules servers supreme. The mainline kernel still sees all its investment, all its participation, coming from predominantly the server sector. Intel and AMD will keep making server CPUs, and those CPUs must support booting Linux kernels. That won't change as long as x86 is the performance king, and it would take a contender a sizable advantage to justify the opportunity cost to switch.