Tag: hardware
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RISC-V: Hot Plugging!
RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux. RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations. According to a report from Phoronix, version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel, which seems set to launch soon,…
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Best Laptops for Linux (ZDNet)
The best Linux laptops are user-friendly with high-end components and great battery life. We tested models from Lenovo, Dell, and more to find the top options. Years ago, we were lucky to have one or two Linux laptop options. Now, you’d be surprised at how many laptops are sold with Linux installed, making it a…
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Improved System Monitor App
A new version of Mission Center, the super-slick system monitor for Linux, has been released. I’ve written about this utility a number of times before (here and on OMG! Linux) so if you read this or that blog you—aside from being awesome—may already be familiar with it. And if you’re not? Well, you’re in for…
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Single-line Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%
Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. In benchmark tests, the seemingly minor change resulted in Linux performance increases as high as 72% on Intel’s Core Ultra PC systems. The patch,…
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TUXEDO First Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 12 April 2024 While TUXEDO Computers has already been offering powerful AMD Zen 4 laptops such as the Pulse 14 Gen 3 with Ryzen 7 7840HS SoC, today the Bavarian company announced their first Ryzen 8000 series mobile laptop. The TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen 2 has been announced…
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Run Mainline Linux on $5 Hardware
Uros Popovic looks to run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware (well, if it’s the board above, $11.70). The Lichee Nano is an SD card sized Linux development board powered by an Allwinner F1C100s ARM9 processor. We’ll look at a fairly minimal set up that should run the latest mainline Linux. I’ve previously written about…
