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Re:Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s by darkwater on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:56PM (#25509769)
A misnomer repeated a thousand times by a thousand different people becomes a/the new meaning. It's how human languages work and evolve or change over time.

Today when most tech people talk about bare metal they refer to a server that is not virtual.

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Re:Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s by arghwhat on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:50PM (#25511071)
It is still insignificant compared to the original terminology, which is heavily used in hardware/embedded to distinguish between the use of an OS (embedded RTOS, Linux, etc.) vs. direct programming.
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