Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:44:53 -0400 From: <scratch65535@att.net> To: freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: A potential sine-qua-non reason... Message-ID: <22mlcc9uva04rlkkij4tq2rh11pbc2gkt4@4ax.com>
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...to spin off a project to package first a desktop/workstation and later a server. >From The Register: Water cooler Q: I read an article this week headlined: "The latest Kaby Lake, Zen chips will support only Windows 10." It claimed Intel and AMD's new processors are "officially supported only by Microsoft’s Windows 10." This can't be true? What about Linux? A: The short answer is Intel's Kaby Lake aka its seventh-generation Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, and AMD's Zen-based chips, are not locked down to Windows 10: they'll boot Linux, the BSDs, Chrome OS, home-brew kernels, OS X, whatever software supports them. So if you want to use Linux or some other non-Windows OS on your new CPUs, you'll be fine. It's OK, we checked. Q: Sweet. What about Windows 7? Or Windows 8.1? Or any Windows pre-10? A: Yeah... nah. Shad Larsen, Microsoft's director of Windows business planning, blogged earlier this month: "Future silicon platforms including Intel's upcoming 7th Gen Intel Core (Kaby Lake) processor family and AMD’s 7th generation processors (e.g. Bristol Ridge) will only be supported on Windows 10, and all future silicon releases will require the latest release of Windows 10." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/02/windows_intel_kaby_lake_amd_zen/ 2 Sep 2016 at 09:33 ----------------------------------------------- Given that there are still millions of XP holdouts even today, the likelihood of everyone simply falling into line and paying a $10 -- $25 monthly fee per seat because Micro$oft say they must seems very small to me. My sense is that all but the Windows fanboyz and the really big corporations will say "buggrit" and move to Linux, faute de mieux. Unless we offer a choice.
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