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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by amluto on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:40PM (#24673848)
Unless something has changed radically since MacOS Server failed, Apple would either need to do massive software engineering of a sort that they are unfamiliar with or they would need to use a different OS entirely to have a credible cloud offering. Mac OS is unlikely to be able to compete with Linux or FreeBSD in the near future even if the CPU is magically better.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tpetry on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:07PM (#24674000)
They could have a very bare bone macOS based server operating system specialised for running virtual machines. Dont they have their own xhyve virtualisation layer?
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by _ph_ on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:13PM (#24675679)
Federighi mentioned during some interviews after the Big Sur presentation, that macOS is a great hypervisor for vitualisation, when asked about Linux on AS Macs. Running Linux in the cloud would equally easy.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by ravi-delia on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:20PM (#24674749)
A lot of the prelim work is probably already being done with their docker optimizations.
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