Canonical Begins Offering Ubuntu Images Optimized For Intel CPUs

[arQon]

Wow.

If you're shipping an Internet Of Shit device and you aren't already doing custom kernel builds, you're not clearing even the lowest bar in what's already the deepest cesspool of bottom-tier products. I can't even imagine just how bad the rest of the software on these things is if complexities like cross-compiling with -march are too much for the developers to cope with.

Hopefully all the "partnerships" (or whatever the current marketing speak for this sort of this is) that come out of this will be announced loudly enough that we know which vendors to avoid. I mean, good for Canonical - the more money they make, the better it is for all of us - but, eesh...

[yump]

Wow.

If you're shipping an Internet Of Shit device and you aren't already doing custom kernel builds, you're not clearing even the lowest bar in what's already the deepest cesspool of bottom-tier products. I can't even imagine just how bad the rest of the software on these things is if complexities like cross-compiling with -march are too much for the developers to cope with.

Hopefully all the "partnerships" (or whatever the current marketing speak for this sort of this is) that come out of this will be announced loudly enough that we know which vendors to avoid. I mean, good for Canonical - the more money they make, the better it is for all of us - but, eesh...

One of the biggest problems with Internet Of Shit devices is that they never get security patches. Cross compiling with -march is easy. Cross compiling with -march and distributing the packages over the internet and keeping up with it for the next 5-10 years is difficult.

[arQon]

One of the biggest problems with Internet Of Shit devices is that they never get security patches. Cross compiling with -march is easy. Cross compiling with -march and distributing the packages over the internet and keeping up with it for the next 5-10 years is difficult.

That is an excellent point. I don't share your optimism over how/why you think that will change as a result of this, since 99% of IoS devices require full FIRMWARE builds to change anything rather than just kernel updates, not to mention testing, and those are entirely dependent on the manufacturer - but you could be right to some extent: it might mean *an* extra update happens for a small fraction of those devices, and every little helps.

[jorgepl]

As noted in the release this is targeted at ioT devices which usually dispenses with the GUI.

Clear Linux on the Atom Z runs just fine without a GUI involved. The GUI just makes the CPU constantly heat throttle, worse with Windows.

This was a year ago, so I am not sure how well it has held up.

You mean it was worse on Windows than Linux? I have a z8350 laptop with Windows 10 which is just unusable. I wonder if Linux (ubuntu 22 or Fedora 36) would make it better...