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If ECC is enabled in the BIOS, that will still happen.

The Linux kernel module is what's needed for reporting the corrected (and any uncorrectable)...

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I'll admit that it's not something i _need_, but I like the PSU monitoring. It's a shame that Corsair has discontinued all of the "i" series...

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Geez, a bunch of people here seem to think that software reliability is all or nothing, and that having a reliable kernel is useless....

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If a microkernel is ABI-compatible with the Linux kernel, then by definition it isn't actually a microkernel....

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Will using synthetic oil in your car engine prevent your muffler from rusting out?

Obviously having fewer kernel bugs doesn't solve all problems...

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The advantage of seL4 over other microkernels is that seL4 is formally verified. It has been mathematically proven to meet its specification, including...

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Is there actually something _wrong_ with XEmacs? I'm not a fan of deprecating things just because they aren't getting new features added. I haven't seen...

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The Sifive FU540 (on the Unleashed) and FU740 (on the Unmatched) also are not open source. Sifive's business model is licensing their cores, same as ARM....

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The Sifive FU540 (on the old Unleashed board) and FU740 (on the new Unmatched board) have branch prediction and other fancy stuff....

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I think that was already the case, if you put ZFS on the full device, or in a compatible partition type, but certainly a shared code base will ensure...

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It doesn't appear that it uses LLVM any more. The Pyston web site claims it uses DynASM, which was developed for LuaJIT.

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I've been using Linux since 1995, with various distributions on many different computers, and have never experienced or even heard of such a thing. It's...

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Just mmap() /dev/zero. That's even faster.

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Maybe. Overall, I'm not all that impressed by their contributions to "developing Linux", but I will give them props for finally in 2017 relicensing...

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Why is this only possible when there is at most one runnable task? At $dayjob I work with an RTOS that can do this (tickless scheduling) with any number...