AMD Announces "Threadripper", Intel to announce the i9 @ Comtex

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IBM & Softlayer are offering a 30 day free on their POWER8 Cloud. You can order up a 8 or 10 core POWER8 with Ubuntu 14 LTS. They aren't offering...

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MSFT also announced ASP Core v2.0 which can run natively in Linux and you can still use Visual Studio. They have migrated yet more functions into the...

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I found a modded BIOS for my Lenovo W510 that added the Intel ACN MiniPCIe so I could upgrade it. You have to turn off AMT to avoid the boot warning...

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Agreed. Look at the posts on Zen before it was released. Everyones' conclusion was that it would compete with Broadwell out the door, Not Kaby Lake....

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Yet more....

Per wccftech:
http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-16-12-...n-cpus-leaked/
AMD Ryzen 16 Core “Whitehaven”

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Per PCWorld:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/31971...ore-32-thread-...

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I have been testing the UP Board (www.up-board.org) with PTS and the results with Ubuntu MATE 17.x is available.

I used Michael's prebuilt...

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I ran Michael's prebuilt PTS script for SBC's on the Asus Tinkerboard and the default OS (Debian 9). You can now do a direct compare to the Raspi and...

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Running latest production build of PTS and MAFFT test is not downloading. I get an error saying it can't be reached attempting mirror, then it fails....

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Oracle is interested in FOSS if it can be used to drive sales or development value into existing revenue generating products....

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My ASUS Tinker board arrived yesterday. While its not the most important thing, the quality of the PCB and SMD's appear to be better than the low budget...

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Hangs when an MPEG4 file has an unexpected EOF. Corel, Adobe will flag the editor to let them know the EOF was unexpected and asks what to do. Open Shot...

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POWER8 and eventually POWER9 works for me because its ability to handle multiple threads per core. With the right software involved, this offers some...

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In 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. for some $11 million. BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5.1 "Dano",...

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Agreed.

As one who had to work with the silliness of the UNIX wars of the 1990's, IBM's pouring of dough into Linux and the creation of...

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FWIW: It really does have a quad core ARM, the power management is fairly aggressive. I ran some Android based tools and it is indeed a quad. Ubuntu Touch...

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Well, my life with the BQ and Ubuntu Edition have come to a close.

With Ubuntu pretty much shutting down Tablet and Phone work and the final...

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Benchmarking cloud based VM's is troublesome because it is simply the performance measurement in one point of time on that particular day.

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Why does anyone pick and use any operating system? There is some robust code in OS/2 that isn't exploited anymore unfortunately. This isn't some sentimental...

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The other model for PCIe is a 375Gb model and is designed really for datacenter acceleration.

https://arstechnica.com/information-techno...