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The ARM plan for CentOS

51 points by conductor 13y ago

jjoe 13y ago
This is great news! CentOS needs to get its feet wet with ARM even if it's 32-bit to start with. This will kick off another growth wave in the lower end dedicated hosting segment with the target being individuals and very small businesses. We're already offering managed ARM-based dedicated servers that are cheaper than our cheapest VPS plan. But we've picked Ubuntu 64-bit as the base. I'm looking forward to integrating CentOS 64-bit sometime/hopefully next year!
- herokusaki 13y ago
  What company is offering that? The offer sounds enticing and I'd like to find out more but you have no link to it here or in your profile.
- scott_karana 13y ago
  Who is "we"? I've never had a chance to play with an ARM server but I've been interested.
- justincormack 13y ago
  Yes please let us know who "we" are!
- comex 13y ago
  Ubuntu 64-bit? Are ARMv8 servers already commercially available? Where are you getting them from?
- sciurus 13y ago
  Are you at Boston Viridis or somewhere else? http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/viridis-cloud.aspx http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/viridis-cloud.aspx
- pauldavis 13y ago
  I am eager to hear who is jjoe's "we", but these two services match the description: http://www.mininodes.com/ http://www.mininodes.com/ and http://www.nx-box.net/en/ http://www.nx-box.net/en/.
ForHackernews 13y ago
Maybe I don't know enough about the details of the RedHat/CentOS distinction, but if RHEL supports ARM, then doesn't CentOS automatically get that support for free? Or is the CentOS project going to be adding extra functionality above and beyond RedHat?
- e40 13y ago
  Nothing is for free, but the article clearly states that the released RHEL doesn't have good enough ARM support, which means CentOS/RHEL 6 can't do ARM well. If the CentOS project decides to take on ARM when RHEL is released, it's a matter of resources.
- justincormack 13y ago
  RHEL6 is ancient, decent ARM support is more recent. A lot has changed, such as the first kernels that run on multiple machines.
dharma1 13y ago
Ubuntu has great ARM support
cagenut 13y ago
just the fact that he's confident centos7 can be turned around quickly when rhel7 goes GA is awesome news the arm stuff is a neat bonus
sn 13y ago
Me and lsc at prgmr.com have bantered about offering arm servers but the cost/wattage per core compared to xen guests still isn't competitive, plus we haven't found anything yet which supports ECC. If there was sufficient interest though we could try offering it. I already have a lot of experience with TI so we'd probably use the beaglebone black http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black Probably storage would be a combination of network (maybe usb) + the local flash for ephemeral data.

51 points by conductor 13y ago

jjoe 13y ago

This is great news! CentOS needs to get its feet wet with ARM even if it's 32-bit to start with. This will kick off another growth wave in the lower end dedicated hosting segment with the target being individuals and very small businesses. We're already offering managed ARM-based dedicated servers that are cheaper than our cheapest VPS plan. But we've picked Ubuntu 64-bit as the base. I'm looking forward to integrating CentOS 64-bit sometime/hopefully next year!

herokusaki 13y ago
What company is offering that? The offer sounds enticing and I'd like to find out more but you have no link to it here or in your profile.
scott_karana 13y ago
Who is "we"? I've never had a chance to play with an ARM server but I've been interested.
justincormack 13y ago
Yes please let us know who "we" are!
comex 13y ago
Ubuntu 64-bit? Are ARMv8 servers already commercially available? Where are you getting them from?
sciurus 13y ago
Are you at Boston Viridis or somewhere else? http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/viridis-cloud.aspx http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/viridis-cloud.aspx
pauldavis 13y ago
I am eager to hear who is jjoe's "we", but these two services match the description: http://www.mininodes.com/ http://www.mininodes.com/ and http://www.nx-box.net/en/ http://www.nx-box.net/en/.

ForHackernews 13y ago

Maybe I don't know enough about the details of the RedHat/CentOS distinction, but if RHEL supports ARM, then doesn't CentOS automatically get that support for free? Or is the CentOS project going to be adding extra functionality above and beyond RedHat?

e40 13y ago
Nothing is for free, but the article clearly states that the released RHEL doesn't have good enough ARM support, which means CentOS/RHEL 6 can't do ARM well. If the CentOS project decides to take on ARM when RHEL is released, it's a matter of resources.
justincormack 13y ago
RHEL6 is ancient, decent ARM support is more recent. A lot has changed, such as the first kernels that run on multiple machines.

dharma1 13y ago

Ubuntu has great ARM support

cagenut 13y ago

just the fact that he's confident centos7 can be turned around quickly when rhel7 goes GA is awesome news the arm stuff is a neat bonus

sn 13y ago

Me and lsc at prgmr.com have bantered about offering arm servers but the cost/wattage per core compared to xen guests still isn't competitive, plus we haven't found anything yet which supports ECC. If there was sufficient interest though we could try offering it. I already have a lot of experience with TI so we'd probably use the beaglebone black http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black Probably storage would be a combination of network (maybe usb) + the local flash for ephemeral data.