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Aren't amateurs the target market of the raspberry pi, and always have been? Students, tinkerers, hobbyists, etc? Have they ever marketed these to any...

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I hope not. This seems like the most useless feature ever. Useless at best, harmful at worst. Hopefully the distros are smart enough to disable it in...

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Perhaps he could improve the performance of his machine by switching to Xfce like the Swedish people?

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IMO for true and proper security, logging in as root should require a re-Captcha authentication. "Select all images of Busses" as this is how...

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It is certainly a plausible scenario. Current chips faster than the competition via unscrupulous short-cuts, then forced obsolescence by "discovery"...

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The biggest problem I see, is the part where it uses Java. When will it die already? Why do enterprise app developers need a 4 core 16 GB vm to run an...

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Debatable. But novelty or not, it's not worth the extra effort required, when the mainline AMD drivers work so well. Why would a Linux user bother with...

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Can't speak to others, but in my office, yes developers are required to have a standard corporate desktop i.e. windows with outlook and office so they...

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Oh, they will. But as with literally every other standard they've adopted, it won't be pure Posix. It'll be 'Microsoft Posix', you know, that new proprietary...

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With Windows copying more and more Linux behavior and functionality, what's the point in using Redmond's clone product, when you can have the real thing...

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Either you have an IT budget and staff that rivals Google or Facebook... or you don't understand how enterprise IT works. Seems more like the latter to...

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Not just fixes, but new features, and new hardware support as well....

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Lol, the DoE is the biggest US buyer of supercomputers, and has been for a very long time. All the biggest supercomputers in the US are DoE owned. The...

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Boom, called it! ...

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My workstation was first built with F25, steadily upgraded over the past few years to current F29. Like any new OS release, I like to give it a few months...

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With the high res textures that newer games have, even 1080p can require more than 4GB. Although for those games, you could always do "Medium"...

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Agreed, but there are situations (mainly dusty / dirty environments) where you do not want airflow into the chassis. Also places like recording studios...

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Some bizarro sku's out there. Like this *triple* slot 1650. Ugh, why???

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...em=N82E1681448...

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I'm fairly certain the next iteration will be named USB 3.3 x2 +3 TurboSpeed v2. Once it's released, they will retroactively rename the previous versions...