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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Nick Hardiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys? > > When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot > loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for > granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or > is that unfair? > > For starters, I’m thinking: > > You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote > cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a > killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a > lot of laptop-carrying people. huh. that never occurred to me. > It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with > running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration > management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get > less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and > unikernels. > > I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a > Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and > so on. yeah exactly. and it's more elegant. > What am I missing? cable set and usb devices (usb eth) maybe a totally-cut-down version of the micro-desktop, a sort-of hybrid variant of the break-out board and micro-desktop, just to get access to the usb ports... l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
