On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 12:33 Russell via talk, wrote:
>
> I think I just read that Windows 10 now has a virtual linux console.
>
Yup. I just installed Debian 9 under Windows 10 today. It doesn't feel like
a VM, but it's a decidedly odd experience running 'apt' on a Windows
On 03/29/2018 11:17 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I haven't got my head around the spec enough to know: does the fact
> that it's USB-C guarantee that it can deliver 20v and lots'o-watts to
> accessories? What about accepting that voltage from a charger? I'd
> bet that Asus hasn't bothered to
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:17:58AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I grabbed Fedora's very latest kernel this morning
> (4.15.12-301.fc27.x86_64) given Russell's point that there's been a lot of
> new feautures related to this. After a reboot I ran 'lspci' - I have
> USB3.0, not 3.1. This is
On 24 March 2018 at 19:07, Russell wrote:
> On March 24, 2018 9:53:59 AM EDT, Russell Reiter
> wrote:
> >On 24 March 2018 at 08:08, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> >> On 23 March 2018 at 20:01, Scott Sullivan via talk
>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:35:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> My Sun 3/60 has 24 slots. But the largest memory module that it will
> accept is 1MiB (note: not 1GiB). So more isn't always better :-)
>
> As memory systems get faster, fan-out and signal path length matter
> more.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:59:44PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over
> 6 years old)
> has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many.
> (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 16:53 Bob Jonkman via talk, wrote:
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> I welcome further off-topic insights, although the list moderators may
> not be so tolerant.
>
I think "hardware that refuses to run Linux" is pretty on-topic. The threat
of the locked-out BIOS* is still with us. Hugh
Many thanks to so many responders impossible to mention all individually !!
Have duly noted around a half-dozen configuration items of the build recipe,
for review and no doubt at least some already for revision.
All postings greatly appreciated ...
Steve
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
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> | From: o1bigtenor via talk
>
> | Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its
> over
> | 6 years old)
> | has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have