Linux Kernel: Hardware, AmigaOS Computer Support, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 16, 2022

• Mokin M.2 NVMe to USB Adapter with Western Digital 250GB WD Blue SN550 Drive under Linux

  The portability laptops grant users is always evolving. Modern laptops can run for well over eight hours, use the same, fast NVMe storage as their desktop counterparts, and mobile processors are both incredibly efficient and powerful. The tradeoff for this portability comes in features and storage, with most laptops only supporting one or two hard drives. Thunderbolt and USB 3.1 have brought incredible transfer speeds to portable storage, however most portable drives are still SATA solid state drives and even spinning disks.

  The latest SATA revision still operates at a theoretical maximum speed to 600 Mbps or .6 Gbps, while USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt speeds begin at 5 Gbps. To begin to saturate a 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps, or higher connection, a faster storage medium is needed – enter NVMe. Faster, lighter, and more power efficient than its SATA counterparts, NVMe is incredibly fast storage. While it took some time for NVMe to USB adapters to hit the consumer market, there are now plenty of options available, with prices ranging from $15 to $50 and up.

  Specific to my needs, I needed a portable drive with faster speeds to house virtual machines and do HD video editing while away from home. These aren’t tasks I regularly do away from my workstation, so keeping these things on a separate drive makes more sense than taking up space on the single drive of my Thinkpad T15.

• Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers

• Re: New kernels

  I am happy to release the final kernel 6.0. Thanks a lot to Skateman and Musa for testing the alphas and release candidates.

• Bad DIMM on Linus Torvalds' Desktop System Move Kernel Merges to His Laptop