Re: A New Machine Is Close To Birth

On 2024-12-18, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

My Xeon W-1270P processor and Gigabyte W480 Vision W motherboard
arrived from Hong Kong on 12/16.
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32 Gigabytes of ECC memory arrived last week.
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I ordered a CPU cooler today.
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Soon I will purchase a power supply, HDD, and sound card.  I can reuse
my video card and monitor (but I may consider new ones as well).
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However, the big part of the job will be building the software
system, including the kernel.  This will be done via cross compilation
and will be mostly automated.  But I need to acquire the compile
parameters that are specific to this processor, especially the cache.
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I can use a Gentoo live USB to get these parameters and then do
the cross compilation from my old system.
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Yes, it's a lot of fucking work but the end result is a system
that is far better that any distro could provide.
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Working off and on and here and there I expect to be finished by
the end of February 2025 (this is when a new kernel and glibc will
be released).
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Then I will have Xeon W with 8/16 cores powered by GNU/Linux.
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There can be no better system.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

After reading a few of your nebulous, confusing, word salad posts I would
suggest you engage someone who actually has the skill to build this system of yours
because I am 100% confident that you will fuck it up and that just might be a very
expensive lesson.

--
pothead

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