# grep --color svm /proc/cpuinfo
svm present in the output in a terminal.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
LinuxMint 13 Maya First Time Look On New Hardware
Look at earlier posts and you'll see I had an older, 32-bit, LinuxMint 12 Live CD that I tried out on this new set of hardware.
I got a Gigabyte motherboard, AMD FX 1600 6-core (!!) CPU, and a sick deal on DDR3 RAM, 8 gigs. Insane prices... so I didn't even go thru my old HDDs hanging around to put one in there, but with all these various distros, I figured I'd check to see if any work.
Lots of them worked, and way better than the very old hardware I've been testing them all on. Not all of them worked, and with 8gigs of ram, I really wanted to see if I could load the thing into ram to speed it up and eliminate the need for the bottleneck of the optical disk.
With Mint 12, I downloaded 13 to the download directory, pretty cool considering I wasn't even sure if that would work, it was darn fast with the Transmission bit torrent app already associated with the torrent file and popped right up. Then I used Brasero to burn a DVD, it was just over the limit for a CD.
Rather than burn another, since so much has been going well lately, (unlike the old days, Linux has come amazingly far) I just trusted the burn and the disk and rebooted with it in the drive and it worked.
Next was using the boot option, "toram." Debian has this option and it worked with Knoppix, SUSE, and maybe another distro, but not Ubuntu, surprisingly. It did work with Mint as it is really Debian and Ubuntu-based.
Many distros don't have flash or the latest flash or codecs etc. With Mint 13 Maya, it's been a very rare, strange ride so far. Audio, video, apps, display, it's all good, so far.
Next step is to look for a DVD with more apps on it. Although, Firefox, Gimp, Media player, and the others on this version could definitely do the job for a while. No Pidgin, but Kapote, have to try that now. Okular, really nice PDF reader.
Combine it with Google Docs, (soon to be Google Drive - why?...) and I don't even need persistent install.
I got a Gigabyte motherboard, AMD FX 1600 6-core (!!) CPU, and a sick deal on DDR3 RAM, 8 gigs. Insane prices... so I didn't even go thru my old HDDs hanging around to put one in there, but with all these various distros, I figured I'd check to see if any work.
Lots of them worked, and way better than the very old hardware I've been testing them all on. Not all of them worked, and with 8gigs of ram, I really wanted to see if I could load the thing into ram to speed it up and eliminate the need for the bottleneck of the optical disk.
With Mint 12, I downloaded 13 to the download directory, pretty cool considering I wasn't even sure if that would work, it was darn fast with the Transmission bit torrent app already associated with the torrent file and popped right up. Then I used Brasero to burn a DVD, it was just over the limit for a CD.
Rather than burn another, since so much has been going well lately, (unlike the old days, Linux has come amazingly far) I just trusted the burn and the disk and rebooted with it in the drive and it worked.
Next was using the boot option, "toram." Debian has this option and it worked with Knoppix, SUSE, and maybe another distro, but not Ubuntu, surprisingly. It did work with Mint as it is really Debian and Ubuntu-based.
Many distros don't have flash or the latest flash or codecs etc. With Mint 13 Maya, it's been a very rare, strange ride so far. Audio, video, apps, display, it's all good, so far.
Next step is to look for a DVD with more apps on it. Although, Firefox, Gimp, Media player, and the others on this version could definitely do the job for a while. No Pidgin, but Kapote, have to try that now. Okular, really nice PDF reader.
Combine it with Google Docs, (soon to be Google Drive - why?...) and I don't even need persistent install.
Debian FAQ in Old School Text Format
Debian old-fashioned text FAQ is still being updated, cool.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html
Lots of Apps Running All In Ram Including the Operating System LinuxMint Maya Version 13
Plenty of RAM available also, only using about 1.5gigs showing in system monitor.
Loaded OS with the "toram" boot option.
I'm impressed...
Loaded OS with the "toram" boot option.
I'm impressed...
Image of CPU Load Shared Over 6 CPU Cores Linux Mint
This is so awesome, and it's running off the LiveCD.
And, I even was able to use Torrent to get another Linux Mint version and burned it to DVD, while the entire OS was loaded into RAM using the toram option on boot to free up the optical drive!
I haven't even installed a hard drive in this new box yet.
And, I even was able to use Torrent to get another Linux Mint version and burned it to DVD, while the entire OS was loaded into RAM using the toram option on boot to free up the optical drive!
I haven't even installed a hard drive in this new box yet.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
IDG News Service Found Embedded in Linuxforums
linuxforums regarding Suse toram, but also this IDG news service embedded news thing about new products. Pretty interesting, I need to find this elsewhere, obviously....
Update on AMD 6 Core CPU and Free Motherboard
I got an AMD FX 1600, 6 core CPU.
Got a free motherboard in the combo, after a $10 mail-in rebate.
And 8 gigs of ram for $39. Amazing.
Using this now with Linux Mint loaded into ram, but it's the 32-bit version so it is only seeing 2.7 gigs.
Must start downloading 64 bit distros soon!
Got a free motherboard in the combo, after a $10 mail-in rebate.
And 8 gigs of ram for $39. Amazing.
Using this now with Linux Mint loaded into ram, but it's the 32-bit version so it is only seeing 2.7 gigs.
Must start downloading 64 bit distros soon!
Mint Tutorial Info
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/100
Browse List of tutorials and search
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/search
Just found this site
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/
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