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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It would be nice if they just sell the machines without an OS instead. Or do they provide custom drivers specifically for Ubuntu?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Eww
The upside is that it implies a high chance that other Linux drivers will also work.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It would be nice if they just sell the machines without an OS instead. Or do they provide custom drivers specifically for Ubuntu?
Not really, it's better that they do it this way. The OS is included for testing purposes. It costs nothing. It actually lowers their cost as they need to put it on at the final build stage. This is why they used to put FreeDOS on machines without a Windows license. It wasn't to be used, it was to be replaced as soon as the customer received it.
With Ubuntu, it is a more robust test and, in theory, the laptop is useful right out of the gate. So this is far better than FreeDOS. And it means that they are guaranteeing drivers work with Ubuntu, if not Linux more generally, which is a huge deal and what we really care about.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It would be nice if they just sell the machines without an OS instead. Or do they provide custom drivers specifically for Ubuntu?
Not really, it's better that they do it this way. The OS is included for testing purposes. It costs nothing. It actually lowers their cost as they need to put it on at the final build stage. This is why they used to put FreeDOS on machines without a Windows license. It wasn't to be used, it was to be replaced as soon as the customer received it.
With Ubuntu, it is a more robust test and, in theory, the laptop is useful right out of the gate. So this is far better than FreeDOS. And it means that they are guaranteeing drivers work with Ubuntu, if not Linux more generally, which is a huge deal and what we really care about.
That's good know. I was always wondering about the FreeDOS in the list.
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@black3dynamite Yes they have their own custom drivers with support from Dell as ppa repos, just like the XPS Developer Edition laptops.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Now you can pay too much for MariaDB to run slowly, too.
Microsoft dumping money into an open source project hasn't been a bad thing yet. At least as far as I know.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Now you can pay too much for MariaDB to run slowly, too.
But you're right.... not sure I would want to run that on Azure.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Now you can pay too much for MariaDB to run slowly, too.
Microsoft dumping money into an open source project hasn't been a bad thing yet. At least as far as I know.
That part is fine, putting it on Azure is the sucky bit.
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Top 500 supercomputers list. Surprising that all 500 run some form of linux. Normally a few other OSs are hanging in.
Ref: https://hothardware.com/news/all-hail-the-mighty-tux-as-linux-powers-the-worlds-top-500-supercomputers
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Interesting Sunway procs leading the pack...
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Still SPARC in the top ten.
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I wonder how long till we see ARM creeping up in the list.
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#1 uses 15MW of power!
#4 from Japan wins on power efficiency by a long shot.
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Number 1 is pretty efficient, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Number 1 is pretty efficient, though.
Much better then number 2.
