[lug] Feb blug talk

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:02:54 -0700
Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:

> I would love to see an ARM talk, or at least some coverage of it.  As
> the web site notes:
> 
>    ARM chips are the most widely-produced processor family in the
> world; they have historically been used in cell phones and embedded
> applications, and are increasingly used in tablet devices and
> low-power-consumption servers.
> 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
> 
> I've been following the ARM work in Ubuntu, and am particulary
> interested in seeing yet lower-power servers, both on racks in the
> cloud and for stuff like NAS boxes.  Anything that reduces power in
> the cloud could have a significant impact on costs and even the
> carbon budget of the planet.
> 
> I'm even hoping that as we evolve a new platform, we can see
> something that avoids some of the legacy mess (like the BIOS) that
> we've inherited from many decades ago.

I'd be happy to touch on what I know of the Fedora ARM efforts too...
but most folks seemed to want the infrastructure talk. ;) 

> > - Fedora Infrastructure: Managing a distributed network of servers
> > (This is my full time job, I'd be happy to show how we use puppet
> > and haproxy and other tools to provide services). 
> 
> My sense is that while this is interesting, we've had talks much
> closer to this over the years, so some variety would be better. 

Hopefully I can make it somewhat interesting. ;) 

...snip...

> Thanks - I'm looking forward to whatever you have to say, Kevin!

Thanks. Hope I can make it a good one. ;) 

kevin
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