Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: IBM and Red Hat Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 13:40:57 +0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <11a33s8$squ$1@rasp.pasdenom.info> <20261007080934.0000474b@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net AyTKUwTGYaXB7gIdHhIcwwuyt0UsOeMGPQdPGJaz0ru0Xjwo2B Cancel-Lock: sha1:aUr3OaeMBkgmAnFSzM0zjs7jaZw= sha256:RXKyMdLlkdCt6ah+TDoE97E6rHGWJpuCa4SaXuhqoe8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93171 On 2026-10-08 03:43, c186282 wrote: > On 10/7/26 11:09, John Ames wrote: >> 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...) >> > >   Heh heh ... yea, heat-dissipation is a biggie >   in space, ONLY 'radiation'. It'd take a huge >   radiator to keep those NVidia chips cool. > >   BUT, Musk IS gonna try anyhow ... however the >   power of those devices is gonna be rather low, >   not like a ten-acre center in Iowa with access >   to an entire river. > >   Someday there will be practical (quantum?) >   processors that don't need much juice. They are only trying things, not intending to put a serious AI centre up there. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.