Recent content by Examancer

I have been running a Ubuntu 17.04 nightly build with a Ryzen 1700 for a week now as I found it easier than messing with kernel upgrades. It's been flawless so far. Just wish there was temperature monitoring.

I pre-ordered Ryzen in hopes to build a powerful, relatively low power, quiet linux development workstation. Bought a sound-insulated Corsair 400Q case, a good performing but relatively low power GTX 1050 Ti, a 65W Ryzen 1700, and a 1TB SSD. Also, 32GB of DDR4. I do a lot with virtual machines...

The situation isn't as dire or complicated as it's made out to be, unless maybe you get a motherboard with an ALC1200 audio codec, in which case you are going to need drivers that are only in the un-released 4.11 kernel. About half of the AM4 motherboards seem to use this codec. Even in this...

Ok, so I suddenly feel like a newb... but what kind of license agreement does AMD currently have with Intel? I am trying to think what piece of the AMD platform they might have taken from Intel. The x86 instruction set has been replicated by others (Via, Transmeta, etc...), the 64bit...

It replaces the system dictionaries, not your custom.dic file, so it should still remember words you have added. However, you are correct that the point I was making is not that the update is too large to download (I'm on broadband) or that its a particularly large update... the point is that...

Maybe I'm paranoid but I always like to review my windows updates, so they are not automatic and I read the details of each one before installing. A few days ago a new update appeared: KB955020, which is 63MB. I wanted some explanation on why this update was so huge, so I looked up the...