morning_gelato

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by morning_gelato 6y ago
> Well NO its not, that's pure FUD from the FSF: What matters is if the upstream Linux community is comfortable enough with the license to allow it upstream, which is why I said "considered". > No im asking why Linus th
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by morning_gelato 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by ZFS being such a big problem, the CDDL license is considered incompatible and therefore OpenZFS isn't going to be considered for upstreaming. Also, most of OpenZFS development is driven by companies
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by morning_gelato 6y ago
The proprietary firmware is in another git repository [1], there are no blobs in the mainline kernel to my knowledge. Further, distributions ship this firmware as a separate package, so it's not bundled with the kernel. This approach a
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
The sad part is that AMD seemingly does not want temperature sensors to work on Linux. All progress on sensor support has been from the community (namely Guenter Roeck) using leaked information, and AMD has been plugging some of those leak
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Could you please provide a link to those discussions/benchmarks regarding 60% performance? In the presentations by Netflix engineers that I have seen, they've primarily cited licensing as the reason they chose FreeBSD over Linux.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Given your current frustrations with the project, could you also describe the benefits of using FreeBSD in your company that offset these problems?
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
> Well-tuned FreeBSD can beat well-tuned Linux easily, but requires skilled staff. This doesn't seem obvious to me, there are a lot of tech companies with skilled staff that choose Linux and also deeply care about performance.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Danese Cooper, one of the people at Sun who helped create the CDDL, responded in the comment section of that very video: Lovely except it really was decided to explicitly make OpenSolaris incompatible with GPL. That was one of the design
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Do you happen to know of any studies or benchmarks that show how much of a difference in performance there is between strong and relaxed memory consistency models for real-world workloads? It's something that I've been curious abo
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
That's certainly true for ARM devices taken as a whole, but I believe most ARM servers are SBBR and SBSA compliant, which means they do support ACPI.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
They've also started a podcast focusing on the hardware/software interface called On the Metal. https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-1-jeff-rothschild/
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Zephyr seems like the best shot at getting an open source RTOS in safety-critical environments, pretty exciting.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
There were no mouse acceleration options for Plasma until release 5.13 which was released in 2018, which is well after the libinput transition. Essentially since the feature was added there's been an open bug report on it not working
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
KDE's pointer acceleration settings have never worked on X11 unfortunately.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
I think FreeBSD still offers a more cohesive (and native) out of the box ZFS experience. For example, you do not need to worry about kernel upgrades/DKMS going sideways and breaking ZFS.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Have you tried reaching out to the linux netdev mailing list about this? They may at least be able to explain their design decision.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
There's at least one video online [1] that talks about Netflix's process for internal FreeBSD releases. They do 5 weeks of development and then 5 weeks of testing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcyQBup-Gto
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
It's disappointing to hear that AMD has not provided adequate performance monitoring tools though. I would have thought by the second generation of Zen that this would be an area that AMD had given attention to.
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
>Support for asm goto, enabling for example the mainline Linux kernel for x86_64 to build with Clang This is great for Linux, no longer being dependent on a single compiler for one of the most popular ISAs can only be a good thing for th
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Wow pushing 100gbps on half a core without hardware acceleration is an incredible feat. Can you provide more information on how this was done?
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by morning_gelato 7y ago
Neither does chromium unfortunately, although Fedora now incorporates the out of tree va-api patches for chromium by default. This is one of the biggest things keeping me on chromium, video acceleration in the browser significantly improves
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by morning_gelato 8y ago
This is my only account on this site.
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by morning_gelato 8y ago
In my experience Intel wifi, specifically in laptops, has been far and away the best wireless experience I've had on both Windows and Linux. I do not see how Intel's Linux support is second rate, Intel's Linux wifi team is v
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by morning_gelato 8y ago
Windows absolutely dwarfs Linux when it comes to gaming market share. Game developers will factor in return on investment and therefore a proportional amount time will be spent on optimizing the Linux port.
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by morning_gelato 8y ago
Difficulties with drivers in terms of quality, availability or both? Regarding availability (and often quality) the only real/sustainable solution is for hardware manufacturers (who I think you are referring to by "they") to
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by morning_gelato 8y ago
Games really aren't a good benchmark for overall system performance as they are generally optimized for Windows and non-Windows ports often receive a lot less attention. Also, most games are primarily stressing one thing - the graphic