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Re:Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price by rbanffy on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:07PM (#29798672)
> and single-purpose operating systems in them

Do they? Aren't most of them running Linux?

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Re:Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price by smoldesu on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:34PM (#29799055)
Linux isn't an operating system. There are many single-purpose operating systems built with Linux though, which is why I think the parent comment is still correct. As I'm sure you can imagine, those machines are multiplexed into hundreds or thousands of containers, VMs and supervisor kits, and those are definitely designed to run extremely niche containerized software or specialized distributions.
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Re:Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price by rbanffy on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:36PM (#29800064)
> Linux isn't an operating system.

While some of those VMs may be running trimmed down OSs tailored for their individual workloads, the fact remains they are all running under some sort of GNU/Linux or, at least, relying on the services of a Linux kernel.

Now that you mention it, WSL1 should be called GNU/Windows instead, because it's the GNU userland on top of a Windows kernel with Linux lipstick.

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