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Raju Devidas: Installing Ubuntu on intel Macbook Pro 2017 with touchbar
Just some notes about fixing some issues while installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro 2017
Fix Audio
Audio is not working by default after a fresh install.
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University of Toronto ☛ Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average
The first issue is what 'load average' should mean on a multi-CPU machine. If you have four CPUs and two constantly running processes, is your load average two (the running processes) or 0.5 (half your total CPU capacity is busy)? The modern answer is that load average is a global count of processes; if two processes are constantly busy, your load average is two regardless of how many CPUs your machine has. However, some Unixes picked the answer differently for a while, apparently including Irix.