[Cialug] Mac/Arm

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 1:29 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> I was thinking about that too. It looks like there is an Arm  version of
> RHEL 8 in the works, but I'm wondering what kind of can of worms that will
> be. I'm wondering will the entire LAMP stack and all the weird little apps
> I use still run on ARM?   Then we are back to breaking the old thing of
> "Dev Environment Should Match the Production environment" rule.
>

CentOS offers an ARM64 version. As long as you have the source, I believe
that an application that runs on x86_64 that doesn't run on ARM64 would be
extremely rare. They exist but primarily because they were written to take
advantage of specific x86_64 features like vector processing instructions,
or are running into some other hardware quirk.


> I guess the answer would be to switch production to ARM... but Honestly, I
> would rather tolerate windows than do that.
>

There are some really cool ARM64 server platforms out there but I doubt
that it would be cost effective to switch, especially if you're running in
the cloud.

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Jeff Ollie
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