On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:56:05 CET Chris Laprise wrote: > But at some point the hardware will make or break us, and the > hardware we got now is Wintel; even Linux is an afterthought when you're > not looking at server components.
I'm not sure if you guys caught the subtle side-effects of the 'Qubes-Air' proposal. It didn't hit me until I slept on it. Today there is a duopoly for CPUs and practically nobody considers ARM or even smaller CPU makers. The main reason for this is the "bang-for-the-buck" factor. To get a speedy desktop you need a fast CPU. The C stands for "Central" for a reason. Now should Qubes Air roll-out I can foresee building a desktop that is VERY different from today. Consider this; I buy a simple piece of hardware (they mentioned a raspberry Pi for a reason, I'm sure) as my main desktop which powers my graphics system and thus my monitors. I will want to add some more beefy qubes to this, and instead of buying one very powerful CPU, I end up buying a series of cheaper "computers". I put the word "computer" in quotes since I really only need a mainboard, memory and a CPU plus some way to communicate to the main-qube (doesn't have to be Ethernet). Then for my C++ compilation I buy an ARM threadripper and plenty of memory. On the other side of the scale I get for my 'Vault' VM a microcontroller that only really has some sort of non-volatile memory and communication with the main qube. Be creative, use mini-itx PCs or any other such device, as long as it can run python and xorg, you can turn it into another part of your desktop computer. So, what Kelly described Qubes Air as being good for; "Apparently, managing a cluster computer" I do agree, but I would argue that it is quite exciting as it effectively removes the _central_ from CPU. And we have to admit that the majority of the security issues we have today are with the CPU makers. -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/2793920.UrlAICczuj%40mail. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
