NVidia to buy ARM

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I was going to ask the same thing. ARM64 OS is faster on the Pi4 on certain operations with more than 1Gb of RAM....

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https://clearlinux.org/software/bundle/desktop-kde

Have you tried the KDE bundle?...

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KVM on Clear Linux does not work on certain Zen CPU's due to the way Clear attempts to initialize the IOMMU.

Since that init fails, AMD-Vi...

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KVM on Intel = Yes.
KVM on Zen = No...

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Well this could create a major earthquake in the Linux world. I can think of a few players who would benefit, and a few who would not.

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IBM has a healthy customer base of POWER9 users that either ordered the NVidia GPU compute module or are using FCPGA's in a hybrid configuration using...

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1 in use. 3 more in storage myself.

When in the consulting world, I used to deal with secretaries and administrative assistants dealing with...

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The roll downhill for Intel started a long time ago. A lot of mid-level to senior managers left quietly on their own and that got the snowball started....

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Interesting link.

It should differ between video drivers but also display servers. The CPU graphs were written with X11 APIs in mind. The...

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Intel had a program back in the mid to late 90's called vTune which could measure the cost of a program on system resources.

We used to benchmark...

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With Intel's major faux pas announcement yesterday that their new nodes are still not ready and that they will seek to use 3rd party fabs en masse, it...

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Interesting results.

Seems there are really only 2 modes. Powersave and "the rest".

The differences between all of...

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Yeah, I guess I will wait for Dry Lake. It's where you go to fulfill a promise just to find out nothing is there. ...

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FWIW: These Sabrent USB enclosures won't boot on a RaspPi4. Not a popular use case by any means, but for some reason the Sabrent's bridge chip just doesn't...

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Business is probably ticking up for licensing.

MSFT stopped providing Office media last fall so everyone has to use subscription. I have...

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Exactly. A paying support customer needs a fix to finish a major studio project, or paying a developer to fix inconsistent code that won't generate a...

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Mark Russinovich, meet Linux.....Linux, meet Mark Russinovich.

Maybe next they will create a Linux tool suite, call it SysInternals.

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If I didn't know better I would say Fedora is getting some funding these days.

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Intel Java performance really improved with the later OS updates.

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99% of computing done at home doesn't have any data worth pinching anyway. Unless you think your rips of over a 1000 DVD's constitutes value.
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