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Originally posted by roviq View PostSo, in the long term, a machine bought today might be still working 10 years from now, so it is better to get one with TPM2 stuff required by Windows 11 and AVX2 for the long run.
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Originally posted by kylew77 View PostFreeBSD dropped support for sparc64 in 13.x series releases.
Originally posted by kylew77 View PostI've always wanted a sparc64 system myself, before these big epic Epyc systems came out from AMD with 64 cores and oodles of cache. SMT4 sparc64 processors were king of the hill!
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Originally posted by X_m7 View PostThe thing with AVX2 (and even plain AVX) though is that there are still rather new CPUs that don't have it today, like say the Celeron N5105, it launched early last year, it's even officially supported by Windows 11, but it only has SSE4.2, so there's probably still time before the lack of AVX2 specifically becomes a problem.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
I think Linux does. I suppose the difference is that individual Linux distros rarely do. On a technical level this is fairly meaningless but for a user, it is quite nice to be able to download from the NetBSD (or OpenBSD and also FreeBSD) website and grab an image for i.e Sparc64.
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Originally posted by roviq View PostIs it even possible that Linux now supports more hardware architectures than NetBSD? I think so...!
I think for Linux, then Debian and Alpine are good examples of projects that offer that similar kind of setup (many are x86* only). Otherwise you are pretty much going to have to start from page one of "Linux from Scratch" which is fun but extremely time consuming (especially if you consider 3rd party packages needing built too)
My slight annoyance (though I suppose I have no right to be. Development is hard!) is that whether Linux or BSD, you download an image, boot it on the hardware. It works but... most of the device support is the bare minimum. Especially the graphics. So in many ways you are still probably better off running the vendor's UNIX; no matter how old and crusty it is. Specifically have IRIX, Solaris, Jetson (and in many cases even Raspberry Pi OS) in mind.Last edited by kpedersen; 07 August 2022, 07:08 AM.
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Originally posted by X_m7 View Post
The thing with AVX2 (and even plain AVX) though is that there are still rather new CPUs that don't have it today, like say the Celeron N5105, it launched early last year, it's even officially supported by Windows 11, but it only has SSE4.2, so there's probably still time before the lack of AVX2 specifically becomes a problem. That said those Celerons and such are really Atoms in all but name as far as I'm concerned, so no one who cares about longevity would probably buy those anyway I'd assume.
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Originally posted by roviq View Post
If possible, or in the short term, consider an AVX2 capable machine for your relatives, some years ago due to lack of SSE instructions, even web browsers stopped to work, I see AVX2 as the next deal-killer in a few years. I built an i3-10100 with a H410 chipset (affordable and same performance as a flagship i7-6700k of four years ago! I know because I had both side-to-side!) for a relative that was using a similar hardware than yours because it was starting to take a hit with so much JavaScript on the web, my Kabini is a backup-of-a-backup and been using it for playing as stated above, but is now shelved. For my parents I set up a standard Ubuntu LTS years ago and they carried over their MS Office skills to LibreOffice and has been a joy, mostly because everything else now is web based, so less virus, more years of life on the same hardware.
Edit: In fact there is also a couple of new-ish Core CPUs that don't have AVX2, namely the i5-L16G7 and the i3-L13G4 (aka the Lakefield series, the first hybrid/heterogeneous x86 CPUs, came out in 2020), thanks to the E-cores (which in fact is the same stuff as in those Celerons I mentioned earlier), so it's not even just the almost E-waste stuff.Last edited by X_m7; 07 August 2022, 03:13 AM.
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Originally posted by kylew77 View PostGoing to try to get him to start using Chrome OS Flex on it since I've researched that Flex runs well on Kabini architecture but IDK if he will take it.Last edited by roviq; 06 August 2022, 08:38 PM.
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Originally posted by roviq View PostAMD Kabini (AM1 socket, 25w max)
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