Re: All Done! Xeon W-1270P is Now Officially Complete

Le 23-02-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

Start uncorking that champagne!

Certainly not. It's a bad quality wine. People like it because it's
expensive and it looks like coca-cola, but I won't drink that if there's
anything else available. And at home I've a lot of better choices to
never need to uncork some Champagne.

My Xeon W-1270P is now officially complete!

Like everything with you: any simple task starts to be a challenge. It
took you an amazing long time to do what anybody could have done in a
few hours.

The important milestone of starting the X GUI has passed.

Let say that 30 years ago, starting a GUI was a challenge. It isn't
one anymore. As always, you advocate Windows telling people that it's
difficult to use Linux. But you are only proving your inability to do
basic tasks.

Before today I had to work in the Linux console which can
be a bitch.

Do you know you can use more than one console at the same time? It helps
a little bit.

What remaining work?  I've got to finish rebuilding about
1,500 packages to take advantage of the much larger cache sizes.

So, three things:
- That won't be faster in a virtual terminal than in the console.
- Unlike what you claimed at the beginning, your computer isn't
  complete.
- Why do you need to rebuild your packages? Couldn't you build them
  correctly the first time?

Cache optimization is extremely critical.

Yes. And difficult. With each one of your messages, you proved you
aren't able to manage it. You should let your distro take care of it.
You will only result with a messed up computer. You won't notice it, of
course because you are not really using it and you are unable to
compare. But it's obvious it'll be slower than the defaults.

Before the CPU can
act upon it everything must first be shoved into the cache.
RAM memory is only just another storage drive.

It's a little bit more subtle: that's why one can optimize the cache.
The fact that's not exactly true show that you should avoid trying to do
anything about it because you don't understand what you'll do.

The common, mainstream distros cannot optimize cache in any
way.  Thus every distro is crippled in performance.

In fact, they can and they do a pretty good job about it.

But not *my* machines.

Yes, let keep it that way. You make me laugh here but I won't take any
advice coming from you. You mess up *your* machines as you want and
that's bad enough.

Let's start popping those corks!  This machine is gonna kick
ass!

With your hard drives, it's impossible. Even Windows on a SSD will be
faster than Linux on your computer. And it's telling how you advocate
more Windows than Linux.

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