22 Best laptops for Linux as of 2018 – Slant

System76 Oryx Pro, Dell XPS 13, and Dell XPS 15 are probably your best bets out of the 22 options considered. “Amazing overall performance” is the primary reason people pick System76 Oryx Pro over the competition. This page is powered by a community of volunteer enthusiasts helping you make an informed decision.

Sorgente: 22 Best laptops for Linux as of 2018 – Slant

Good, but they missed https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-13

Is it time for open processors? [LWN.net]

The disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectrevulnerabilities has brought anew level of attention to the security bugs that can lurk at the hardwarelevel. Massive amounts of work have gone into improving the (still poor)security of our software, but all of that is in vain if the hardware givesaway the game. The CPUs that we run in our systems are highly proprietaryand have been shown to contain unpleasant surprises (the Intel managementengine, for example). It is thus natural to wonder whether it is time tomake a move to open-source hardware, much like we have done with oursoftware. Such a move may well be possible, and it would certainly offersome benefits, but it would be no panacea.

Sorgente: Is it time for open processors? [LWN.net]

Timeo Smart-TV et dona ferentes

Veramente belli ed istruttivi gli appunti di Gabriele Merli come per esempio questo «Windows – Dispositivi fantasma nelle risorse di rete – Gabriele Merli» leggendo i quali rimango sempre più convinto che mai e poi mai una smart-tv entrerà in casa mia.

Beh. a dirla tutta varrebbe anche per tablet e telefonini su cui non gira un sistema libero installato da me, ma almeno quelli li posso chiudere in un cassetto mentre una smart tv è sempre lì, in vista e ben alimentata.

Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi

Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi – Bryan Apperson

As the author clearly stated in a comment, this is more of a proof-of-concept for learning ceph, not for a real deploy as it’s not meant to be cheaper per GB, but cheaper for initial cost: a “3 figure cost of entry way to begin learning ceph”.

Even today  (year 2017) an x86 based solution will have a minimum cost much higher while giving higher performances (129€ just for a single CPU board plus case without memory and storage)

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Ultrabook Katana

DestacadosSlimbook2Reading the pages of DUCC-IT 2017 speakers I discovered this:

Ultrabook Katana EN – SLIMBOOK Ultrabook, laptops, computers

With the notable exception of the CPU (6th generation versus 7th) it’s almost like the Dell XPS. So now I’m officially torn and I don’t know what to choose:

  • the “mainstream” company, so they will keep supporting GNU/Linux and other OS Liberi or
  • the small, European company that supports GNU/Linux as its core business?

 

Dell lancia una nuova line-up di portatili e un all-in-one con Ubuntu

Dell ha annunciato l’ampliamento della sua line-up di workstation mobile Precision basata su Ubuntu alla quale si aggiunge per la prima volta il Precision 5720 All-in-One. I nuovi prodotti saranno disponibili a partire da Febbraio negli USA e successivamente nel resto del mondo.

Sorgente: Dell lancia una nuova line-up di portatili e un all-in-one con Ubuntu

Ok… they seem to have started seeing rewards? Good for us!