GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Compact Linux Consoles : rg35xx
Anbernic unveiled the 'RG35XX,' a compact, pocket-sized gaming console that runs on a custom Linux operating system. The operating system is Anbernic's fork of Emulation Station, which allows for convenient navigation of retro games, especially when combined with Anbernic's function button, which acts as a back button and a quit button.
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Linux Format 297
Escape Windows Linux Format style! We guide the first time Linux user through the install maze to escape Microsoft to software freedom. Discover how you can run Linux anywhere, any how and any time with one of the best beginner-friendly options: Elementary OS!
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Enhancing the Acer Aspire 3 Ryzen 5 laptop
One reason it was bought is to do OpenEmbedded builds, freeing up my main workhorse Lenovo desktop computer. It is doing that right now, and indications are the build will take about three days.
I never timed the build on the Lenovo, as it stopped many times and had to fix recipes. Now it looks like will run right through. This is the new OE Kirkstone build, and compiling a whopping 1,620 packages, including biggies such as Chromium and LibreOffice.
When the build started yesterday, the CPU temperature crept over 80°C, which was a concern. I read somewhere that at 90°C there will be possible CPU damage. EasyOS has Wcpufreq, launched via the "System" menu, and I played with some frequency scaling. Settled on "powersave" mode, running at a constant 1.4GHz. CPU temperature dropped to around 50°C.
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Can the Lenovo Yoga 7i (2022) run Linux? [Ed: All 3 suggestions here wrongly assume you want to keep Windows]
If you're interested, you can buy the Lenovo Yoga 7i using the links below. It's one of the best Lenovo laptops you can buy right now and a great option for almost any kind of user, especially since the 14-inch and 16-inch models cater to different people.
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The age of Unix workstations is over. What did we learn? • The Register
When the market for proprietary UNIX workstations collapsed, few vendors survived… and those that did seemed not to learn much from it.
OSnews has an interesting post on "the mass extinction of UNIX workstations," and makes a some good points. Some of them are interconnected: for instance, while a decade or two back, old UNIX kit was almost worthless and was often being thrown away, now it commands serious prices from collectors – and some things, notably the software to run on the machines, is totally unobtainable these days.
That's good news if you have the likes of an old SPARCstation in storage: You might be pleasantly surprised at what it's worth now.
Another big issue, though, is what the knowledge and the skills are worth. There are many people running Linux (and possibly more saliently FreeBSD) servers today who learned and polished their skills on this stuff. There are multiple forms of value in keeping old machines running: educational value, in seeing how things were done. Lessons in performance optimization, resource usage, scalability, and so on. In the 1990s it was not unknown for high end corporate email servers to support tens of thousands of users, in as little memory as a first-gen smartwatch (for instance the first Apple Watch had 512MB). Knowing how to do that is useful knowledge, even now.
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Weak EU Digital Rights +++ Checkmate! +++ 5 reasons why
Copyleft protects Free Software from becoming proprietary. Free Software chess engine Stockfish filed a lawsuit when ChessBase distributed parts of Stockfish work under a proprietary license, violating GPL-3.0 obligations. Checkmate! Stockfish was victorious. ChessBase must comply fully with GPL-3, hire a Free Software Compliance Officer, and list their Free Software elements online, before they can distribute the Stockfish software or make it publicly available again.
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Registration for Youth Hacking 4 Freedom ends on 31st December. The coding contest welcomes 14-18 year old Europeans who wants to hack a Free Software project of their choice and win cash prizes. As some of the winners from the last edition stated, participating was a lot of fun and a great opportunity. Check our video with the winners presenting their projects in Brussels. Share this opportunity among your friends and community! Moreover, you can send it to schools, teachers, and young people in your region.