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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: All Done! Xeon W-1270P is Now Officially Complete
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:53:47 -0600
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On 2/23/25 4:58 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> Start uncorking that champagne!  My Xeon W-1270P is now
> officially complete!
> 
> The important milestone of starting the X GUI has passed.
> 
> Before today I had to work in the Linux console which can
> be a bitch.  But now I have virtual terminals in X and the
> remaining work can proceed a lot faster.
> 
> What remaining work?  I've got to finish rebuilding about
> 1,500 packages to take advantage of the much larger cache sizes.
> 
> Cache optimization is extremely critical.  Before the CPU can
> act upon it everything must first be shoved into the cache.
> RAM memory is only just another storage drive.
> 
> The common, mainstream distros cannot optimize cache in any
> way.  Thus every distro is crippled in performance.
> 
> But not *my* machines.
> 
> Let's start popping those corks!  This machine is gonna kick
> ass!
> 
> 


I wouldn't know but I suspect you have shown something useful for the 
idiots in this forum, but they're too evil to acknowledge it :)