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Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-res...
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On Tuesday 12. September 2017 16.07.12 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-res...
One year later and it looks like this is available to purchase:
Is that correct and why didn't you keep us posted? ;-) Have you had much interest from the Free Software community?
Paul
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On 09/14/2018 04:02 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
On Tuesday 12. September 2017 16.07.12 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-res...
One year later and it looks like this is available to purchase:
Is that correct and why didn't you keep us posted? ;-) Have you had much interest from the Free Software community?
Paul
Yes, it's true! :-) We've been selling these machines for the better part of a year now, and so far the reception has been quite positive.
We'll have some of our hardware available on display / for live demo at the OpenPOWER Summit in Amsterdam [1] if anyone is interested in trying one out live...
[1] https://openpowerfoundation.org/summit-2018-10-eu/
- -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com
Would any of the boosts in sales be also attributed to the current intel security issues, spectre, meltdown and more recent problems that affect intel architecture. I would assume that power9 does not suffer from similar problems, (not that we should be complacent) so this combined with freedom and open hardware is welcome.
Paul
On 14/09/18 22:36, Timothy Pearson wrote:
On 09/14/2018 04:02 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
On Tuesday 12. September 2017 16.07.12 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-res...
One year later and it looks like this is available to purchase:
Is that correct and why didn't you keep us posted? ;-) Have you had much interest from the Free Software community?
Paul
Yes, it's true! :-) We've been selling these machines for the better part of a year now, and so far the reception has been quite positive.
We'll have some of our hardware available on display / for live demo at the OpenPOWER Summit in Amsterdam [1] if anyone is interested in trying one out live...
[1] https://openpowerfoundation.org/summit-2018-10-eu/
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 08:25:41AM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
Would any of the boosts in sales be also attributed to the current intel security issues, spectre, meltdown and more recent problems that affect intel architecture. I would assume that power9 does not suffer from similar problems, (not that we should be complacent) so this combined with freedom and open hardware is welcome.
I'm very doubtful about Power9 not having such issues, unless: - it does not use speculative execution at all (and how does it manage being high-performance?) - it does not have the "separate VM" features at all
It is less widespread, so maybe nobody has found / publicised an attack yet...
On 14/09/18 22:36, Timothy Pearson wrote:
On 09/14/2018 04:02 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
On Tuesday 12. September 2017 16.07.12 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-res...
One year later and it looks like this is available to purchase:
Is that correct and why didn't you keep us posted? ;-) Have you had much interest from the Free Software community?
Paul
Yes, it's true! :-) We've been selling these machines for the better part of a year now, and so far the reception has been quite positive.
We'll have some of our hardware available on display / for live demo at the OpenPOWER Summit in Amsterdam [1] if anyone is interested in trying one out live...
[1] https://openpowerfoundation.org/summit-2018-10-eu/
Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct