Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: IBM and Red Hat Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 08:09:34 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 21 Message-ID: <20261007080934.0000474b@gmail.com> References: <11a33s8$squ$1@rasp.pasdenom.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="3081333"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Pxb+ecyVq1zzGrWimB/TGOAuhKm+ZbcA="; posting-host="bf99403d8811fd13a2aed61827b761b2" Cancel-Lock: sha1:/SK6RuFXQLeD4JlKqTWIQJhsyOw= sha256:bBeOjPIuaG53+jA1TFON0IYFY646XsimNOTW7DbBZ4E= sha1:2fAtOCQ04rvtRmgtTPeQUs7RkpE= sha256:m0ZNKYop9QWv3nwlVD7NjeM8RXOxgORkzmBrudsl6eU= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93133 On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 00:23:21 -0400 c186282 wrote: > "Computing" is now even moving off-planet. Damned Small Linux ain't > gonna be good for that. Still has its PLACE, but .... > > Very next StarShip launch, expect Elon to put a core for his space- > based data/AI stuff in orbit. ...and it would take a smoothbrain like Melon to think orbital data- centers are Brilliant, Actually. Basic physics lesson, kids: no matter what cartoons told you, the temperature of a vacuum is N/A, not Minus A Jillion. Without a surrounding medium, you can only lose heat by radi- ation, which is *vastly* less efficient - and when cooling is one of the primary challenges of building these dumb things on a planet *with* oceans' worth of cooling medium, what do you think that does for the relative difficulty of keeping your billions of dollars of computing gear from incinerating itself? (To say nothing of the maintenance costs, the increase in latency...)