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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

John Savard

Development Platform Availability

Can ARM be trusted for deployment on servers, when there aren't even any ARM development platforms around?

That's a good question to ask. That is a gap in the ecosystem.

But if you've got an ARM cpu that's powerful enough to put in a server, then clearly non-rack-mount motherboards can also be developed for it.

Also, while code written in C is at risk of biting you if run on different hardware, code written in FORTRAN or Pascal... not so much.

So I don't see any problems with making the transition gradually. While x86 has a big lead, and some of its competitors have fallen by the wayside - no one is expecting SPARC or PowerPC or Alpha to come and take the world by storm any longer - I think it's too early to say that the x86 lead is forever.

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