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Jabberwocky

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Joined: 08-11-2011

Location: South Africa

Jabberwocky replied to AMD Radeon RX 590 Launches, Linux Support Presumably Okay

in Latest Phoronix Articles

11-16-2018, 10:47 AM
I'm with audi.rs4 on this one. It looks like the stock 590 is clocked higher than what the average 480/580 can go. If the production process improves...

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Jabberwocky replied to Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Released For $25 USD

in Latest Phoronix Articles

11-16-2018, 09:45 AM
From Degra's post: "Take a look at the Rock Pi 4.".

Apparently it's $39 and it has a Rockchip RK3399 SoC, not bad if you ask m...

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Jabberwocky replied to Fedora Perfecting Their Flicker-Free Boot Experience With A New Plymouth Theme

in Linux Distributions

11-14-2018, 04:02 PM
I guess feature parity is important to some, but I just never switch my devices off.

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Jabberwocky replied to 16-Way AMD EPYC Cloud Benchmark Comparison: Amazon EC2 vs. SkySilk vs. Packet

in Processors & Memory

11-12-2018, 03:54 PM
Packet seems to be doing really well. VM vs dedicated machine, still price/performance seems great!

Thanks for the tests Michael.

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Jabberwocky replied to EXT4 Getting Many Fixes In Linux 4.20, Including For Some Really Old Leaks

in General Linux & Open-Source

11-12-2018, 11:27 AM
Why are you posting the same comment in multiple threads? Hope you realize that people don't take trolls seriously. If you are serious open an official...

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Jabberwocky replied to The Radeon GCN Backend Is Still Being Worked On For GCC, GCC 9 Deadline Looms

in Radeon Linux Drivers

11-12-2018, 10:26 AM
I think AMD should prioritize opensource compute above any other software project e..g. desktop-drivers, freesync, hardware media en/de-coding, etc......

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Last edited by Jabberwocky; 11-13-2018, 04:00 PM. Reason: Added testing feedback, everything after EDIT mark
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Jabberwocky replied to AMD Next Horizon: Zen 2, 7nm Vega, AMD On Amazon EC2

in Processors & Memory

11-06-2018, 07:34 PM
Zen 4 is correct, these designs take many years to complete. Zen 3's target is 2020 and they need to plan for 2021 in (or before) 2018.

Edit:...

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Last edited by Jabberwocky; 11-06-2018, 08:27 PM. Reason: More chipletinfo and youtube link
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Jabberwocky replied to Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting

in General Discussion

11-05-2018, 09:32 PM
Many companies buy Apple hardware for all their employees, at my previous job I got two Macbook Pro laptops over the years. I agree won't ever buy one...

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Jabberwocky replied to PortSmash: A New Side-Channel Vulnerability Affecting SMT/HT Processors (CVE-2018-5407)

in General Discussion

11-02-2018, 05:25 PM
All the old-school 2500K guys are probably smiling now

People payed so much for SMT in the first place

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Jabberwocky replied to System76 Unveils Thelio "Open" Desktops With Intel/AMD CPU Options, NVIDIA/Radeon GPUs

in General Hardware

11-01-2018, 12:47 PM
Very noice! I'm gald they are finally have AMD systems too.

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Jabberwocky replied to New /proc/pid/kill Interface Proposed For Killing Linux Processes

in General Linux & Open-Source

10-30-2018, 01:08 PM
I agree kill is fine.

Depending on relativity of "cares" I don't agree with "everyone who cares already knows it". Some...

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Jabberwocky replied to Fedora 29 Officially Released With Arguably The Best Fedora Workstation Release Yet

in Linux Distributions

10-30-2018, 12:09 PM
Like I said in the beta release threads: I have no more major issues with Fedora workstation YAY!

The only minor non-gaming issue is when...

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Jabberwocky replied to Fedora 29 Is Cleared For Release Next Tuesday

in Linux Distributions

10-25-2018, 10:05 PM
I've been using Fedora 29 beta for about 3 weeks as my primary OS, only had two big issues. XWayland apps crashed frequently and AMD GPU max power state...

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Jabberwocky replied to System76 Thelio Systems Being Announced Next Week

in General Hardware

10-25-2018, 09:04 PM
thel.io is one of the strangest site designs I have seen in a few years. I wish they would turn down the hipsterism and turn up the specs.

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