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[edwaleni]

- Support UEFI v1.x would be nice. (Would take that over non-EFI)
- Support for Mellanox 10GbE (X2) on the Live image is a nice to have.
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[edwaleni]

The tendrils of Disney go much deeper unfortunately.

After the last terrorist event, USAF scrambled (2) Florida ANG F-15's to patrol what?...

[edwaleni]

If I was AMD and I had a choice between delaying a capital intensive project just so I could get some code into FOSS, or getting the product out on the...

[edwaleni]

Interesting to know how long a code review takes for LLVM and what is the backlog on their review schedule. If Intel submits theirs a year in advance...

[edwaleni]

I think AMD Rome is going to put a big dent in "Intel Only" in the datacenter. There is pent up demand to reduce the number of sockets in the...

[edwaleni]

I can assure you that several enterprise server architecture teams read Phoronix. There are also many enterprise server evaluation teams that run PTS...

[edwaleni]

Netflix uses their own spin of FreeBSD across their enterprise for content delivery....

[edwaleni]

Just looking at the cost for performance metrics, you can see why Rome is going to be a huge mover in the datacenters for the next 18 months.

[edwaleni]

I am sure that is just a pre production prototype without the label embossing. Also we don't know if the final buttons will have a tactile feel so you...

[edwaleni]

Do what many in the FOSS world do, charge a minimal "donation" at the download time.

If Wireguard simply says $5 donation required...

[edwaleni]

I would have said Tizen, but even after Samsung dumped a load of Tizen phones on Russia & India, they still didn't sell.

https://en....

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The market sweet spot for Epyc is to reduce socket use in the datacenters typically, so 1P is going to be pretty popular, but the 2P layouts do exist....

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https://www.pengwin.dev/

Pengwin also has a different spin for WSL based on Debian.

Interesting to see all of this WSL development...

[edwaleni]

Absolutely. Google still has some optimizations to complete on their lib. AVX, VSX, Neon, and much more....

[edwaleni]

As long as they aren't Kaby Lake-G. Intel announced to OEM's they are ceasing production....

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As I noted in the last Windows test, the OS is currently running static in performance and unless MSFT comes out with a new release in the server space,...

[edwaleni]

Yes. I ran BeOS on an IBM workstation with the first "overdrive" upgrade they came out with. Then on a Compaq Deskpro Pentium II. I tried to...

[edwaleni]

Yes, I have asked many friends who have worked tech help desks to write a book on their support experiences. My eye opener was probably when a friend...

[edwaleni]

I wonder if Haiku will bring along any of its BeOS Power platform roots?

The original BeBox with BeOS was a dual socket Power 603-66 and...

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This is just Google's first public release. I wouldn't get all stirred up until they start putting CPU specific enhancements in it. AVX, VSX etc. Until...