Linux Leftovers
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Graphics Stack
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux
Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for NVIDIA GPU users. If you're not using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, that is.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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The New Stack ☛ Why Red Hat Thinks AI’s Future Is Small Language Models [Ed: "Red Hat and Google are sponsors of The New Stack." Very small grey fonts to disclose the company covered paid for the 'article'.]
Of course, small language models are not necessarily small — they’re just smaller relative to other models. For instance, LLaMA has a 405 billion parameter model (the largest model today), but there’s also a 70 billion parameter model, 8 billion parameter model and a 3 billion parameter model.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Mira Welner ☛ How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi
As most Pi-havers know, one of the many cool things you can do on a Raspberry Pi is run a webserver. There are tutorials here and here and probably many more places that explain how. There are also some reasonably well known sites, my favorite being this one, which is run on a solar-powered Pi. And there is also, of course, this site—my personal website—that you are currently viewing, which is being run on a Raspberry Pi in my room.
While tutorials abound in regards to getting a basic webserver set up, there is a difference between a functional server and a good usable website. I've been working on getting my personal site set up over the course of the past five years, spending an hour or so every month working on improving the Pi. I never intended for this personal project to become so lengthy or complex, but eventually I ended up with a fairly robust system for running, maintaining, and editing my website. This tutorial will describe what I've learned throughout the process of creating this site in 15 steps, so that you can use it to create and maintain your own sites.
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[Old] Hackaday ☛ The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi
Last week we saw the announcement of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is basically an improved quad-core version of the Pi Zero — more comparable in speed to the Pi 3B+, but in the smaller Zero form factor. One remarkable aspect of the board is the Raspberry-designed RP3A0 system-in-package, which includes the four CPUs and 512 MB of RAM all on the same chip. While 512 MB of memory is not extravagant by today’s standards, it’s workable. But this custom chip has a secret: it lets the board run on reasonably low power.
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