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> x86_64, arm64, and maybe ppc64le All of them commercial products and from companies in the US and the UK. The problem with limited platform support is the l
by cbmuser 6y ago
> x86_64, arm64, and maybe ppc64le
All of them commercial products and from companies in the US and the UK.
The problem with limited platform support is the lack of competition which helps to lower prices and provides more choice to the customer.
Especially considering the many vulnerabilities Intel CPUs have.
I'm aware that hobbyists platforms are something different, but you excluded many other commercial targets like MIPS, RISC-V, S390 as well.
- google234123 6y agoPractically no one is doing vulnerability research on hobby platforms.
- cbmuser 6y agoWell, the previous comment also suggested to exclude RISC-V, S390x and so on which are certainly not hobbyist targets.
- google234123 6y agoI would imagine there are 100 times more security researchers and graduate students looking at Intel than those two.
- loeg 6y agoOP isn't talking about Linux, and no one wants to run FreeBSD on their mainframe. In that sense, it would be a hobbyist platform for FreeBSD.
- mycall 6y agoPerhaps that makes them more secure, indirectly.