Subj : ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Wed Aug 12 2020 23:13:00

Hello Maurice!

09 Aug 2020 22:18, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:


 MK> There isn't one ... or at least not on the internet.  So far I have 
 MK> only supplied myself.  An excellent source for building customized 
 MK> linux-gnu systems has always been www.linuxfromscratch.org.

okay

 BP>> it shame that zeon is behind amd now,

 MK> That is what I've heard except I haven't seen a 36 penguin ryzen yet.  
 MK> 16 is the most I have seen thus far.  Mind you I haven't been looking 
 MK> all that hard.

who needs 36 ?, one is sometimes faster then 36 old womans :)

i had forget to turn off multilib so ggc glibc sandbox all taked longer unneded time to build, its many year since gentoo defaulted to multilib on amd64

 BP>> i am still happy with my ryzen 7 3700, there is a new model now
 BP>> 3750, but :)

 MK> Understood.  I am happy with the two atom based servers I currently 
 MK> have working but they aren't anywhere near providing me with 36 
 MK> penguins.  ;-)

i have a slackware at home running on atom cpu, not impressed :)

 MK> No amd's here ... yet.  I like the looks of the threadrippers but they 
 MK> are a tad too rich for me ... especially the 128 penguin ones.  You 
 MK> could bribe me with one of those systems.  :::evil grin:::

this is possible the new black of computing, lets hope the white will not fight who should be stopped or being slave cores :)

its wild enough that graphics cards have now more memory then my first amiga harddisk


 Regards Benny

.... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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