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[edwaleni]

Great article. Thanks for the link.

Also of some interest is this one (2006) on cooling technologies.

https://www.electroni...

[edwaleni]

I thought VMWare was deprecating VMWare Workstation (but keeping Player)? I was surprised when I read this post that a new version was coming out. ...

[edwaleni]

Windows Communication Framework (WCF) is supported in Mono, but devs I talk to say WCF is too tied to IIS which means it can't use Wine. Besides most...

[edwaleni]

Several testing publications have found laptop board makers are installing the USB-C port, but wiring it up to the USB3 controller, so it isn't a true...

[edwaleni]

Many of the ones I have worked with require some form of client engine to simulate/exercise the host being evaluated. This tends to work against your...

[edwaleni]

Have you tried PolyBench/ACC?

http://cavazos-lab.github.io/PolyBench-ACC/

I didn't see it in your PTS suite listing.

[edwaleni]

That is because we expect it to look like this:

http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Server-Mothe...-AR0-rev-11#ov

It's a 8 core...

[edwaleni]

My thoughts exactly. The fab team is working faster than the software teams. I would look for some errata to pop up on coffeelake in 3 or 4 months. ...

[edwaleni]

I am not sure if it was a speed to market thing as Intel's lead times on new products are just as long as AMD's. The word on the street factor (the silicon...

[edwaleni]

Skype for Business on Linux I would much prefer so I can integrate my work and still use a hosted PBX.

[edwaleni]

Rather than AMD attempt to produce an "optimized" Linux distro themselves, I would much prefer they partner with some of the base builders like...

[edwaleni]

I am looking forward to testing my BeOS Office Suite (BeProductive) and the apps I purchased from BeBits. BeBits had a great universal chat client, I...

[edwaleni]

I apparently inserted a USB device that either shorted out or over volted the USB port. Probably was one of my legacy Western Digital USB hard drives...

[edwaleni]

I got one when they first came out. They are very flexible, but I have had some minor quibbles with it over time.

- Clear Linux just doesn't...

[edwaleni]

VIA is still around and produce a Windows 10 compatible CPU in the Eden Family of CPU's which are popular on cheapo Pico and Mini-ITX boards. They recently...

[edwaleni]

A proper driver for a 3dfx would be interesting. I still have a Voodoo and the last time fired it up (2010), it still benched faster in 2D than many modern...

[edwaleni]

You can now compile a kernel in what, 34 seconds on a Threadripper now? Granted Linux hasn't taken the Microsoft approach to code bloat.

[edwaleni]

I benched the Asus Tinker Board a couple of months ago and there is a OpenBenchmarking result where I used Michael's mega SBC test link to aggregate the...

[edwaleni]

A more robust V4L would be nice....