Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux(mindstudio.ai)

586 points by novaRom 9 days ago | 271 comments

A MindStudio blog post on dual-booting Linux on Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, covering a GPU clock throttling issue on wall power that cuts inference speed versus Windows.

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3(asahilinux.org)

386 points by ackyshake 6 days ago | 333 comments

Asahi Linux progress report for Linux 7.3 covering upstreamed drivers, M3 general availability, M3 GPU reverse engineering, Thunderbolt support, and per-process page sizes for gaming.

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming(gyptazy.com)

61 points by JohnDohnBohn 4 hours ago | 15 comments

Blog post presenting a work-in-progress RFC implementation of live VM migration for bhyve on FreeBSD 15.1, covering design, test results, and blockers to upstreaming.

Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs(frontier.replit.com)

79 points by gaplong 7 days ago | 26 comments

Replit engineering blog post, part 1 of a series, on rebuilding its sandbox engine around microVMs with Cloud Hypervisor and KVM for stronger isolation and fast startup.

What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?(nixsanctuary.com)

12 points by paulcarroty 2 years ago | 23 comments

Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu(evertpot.com)

54 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 44 comments

I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster(jeffgeerling.com)

406 points by speckx 1 year ago | 297 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing a $3000 Raspberry Pi cluster built for AI workloads and explaining why he regrets building it.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

How to turn anything into a router(nbailey.ca)

734 points by yabones 7 months ago | 255 comments

Blog post explaining how to build a homebrew Linux router from a mini-PC or other computer, prompted by a US policy restricting imports of new consumer routers.

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK(marco-nett.de)

344 points by hoechst 4 months ago | 224 comments

A personal blog post measuring input latency on Linux for gaming, comparing X11 vs Wayland, variable refresh rate, and DXVK settings.

Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget(ewintr.nl)

339 points by marban 1 year ago | 203 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author built a budget computer for running AI models locally and privately.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.