10.12.2017 01:59, Bill Merriam пишет: > I discovered today that a hosting provider in Europe offers very cheap > ARMv7 and ARMv8 cloud servers. > > https://www.scaleway.com/ > > The following observations are from a few hours of testing and may not > be correct. > > It appears the ARM servers are NOT virtualized but run on special > miniature servers. The ARMv7 uses a Marvell 385 SOC and the ARMv8 uses > a Cavium SOC. Marvell is in the process of buying Cavium. > > Opensuse does not generally appear among the offered distributions. The > exception to this was opensuse 13.2 on the ARMv7 system. I was able to > upgrade it to 42.3 but they don't use the kernel from my image. I guess > they need a custom kernel. Their kernel has many limitations. It > doesn't support iptables so you can't have a firewall. > > I am hoping someone can convince them to offer an ARMv8 Leap 42.3 with a > decent kernel.
It is common issue. IMO openSUSE is not popular for cloud services. > > Bill > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+ow...@opensuse.org
