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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM

« on: July 14, 2025, 12:49:36 am »

I seriously doubt there will ever be a Power CPU that costs less than $500. In fact, I think we'll see further increases across the board, unfortunately. The tariffs will especially hurt us Europeans, who will have to pay who knows how much more to buy from America... The overall situation isn't good at all...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu 24.04

« on: June 30, 2025, 03:41:37 pm »

Hi, I'm also using Ubuntu a bit but in the LTS version so the latest LTS version. I had version 20 and I updated to the latest LTS version and just after updating I saw that Firefox had removed it. They do it because they push you to use Snap packages but I still preferred to use the .deb version and so I installed that. I saw with my surprise that they finally solved the Firefox problems on Ubuntu, related to saving favorites and similar things that have plagued it for I don't know how many years. I have to say that it works quite well, no problem for my Radeon 5700XT as it is older and more stable. The only thing that I really regret is that it is missing is a version of Chromium to be truly complete. Too bad because I tried to install it and it doesn't let you install it, I tried to do it from the wiki guide but nothing, that guide is no longer good and among other things I also tried to ask on GitHub but even there I didn't get any answer unfortunately... A real shame because if it could be installed it would be perfect...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: June 29, 2025, 08:12:42 am »

guys there is a problem after the last Chromium update, after it opens the main window, it crashes, exits and closes everything. I use it on Debian 12 so the problem is precisely the last update. I think the same will happen if you update to the latest version of Fedora. So be careful and I hope that Raptor is already aware of the problem to fix the bug.

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« on: May 06, 2025, 03:51:11 pm »

I rewrote all that example code and entered the width and height in the required parameters, those of a photo that I'm trying to run.

Now I managed to get it to start, I made a mistake in the startup file after compiling and then I didn't understand where to put my file. I managed to get the image to start, everything is,
thank you very much Classic!

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« on: May 06, 2025, 12:18:46 am »

Yes perfect thanks, yesterday I looked on github but I hadn't found this part yet. Above all I have to understand how to enter the path each time to make it send the photos I have to display to the screen. It seems that for each new photo I have to write all these lines of code, good work then...

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« on: May 05, 2025, 12:56:15 am »

Hi Classic, thank you for the information, I knew I could count on you. Listen, is there a general procedure or a written code to understand in detail how to write? Always thanks

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General Discussion / Re: POWER11, "Cirrus+" Can any of this be substantiated?

« on: May 04, 2025, 04:39:23 pm »

I also read something about the production processes of the future Power 11 and I read that they will still use a 7 nanometer even if improved and refined compared to the previous one. Only my question arose spontaneously... Why, in 2025/2026, where the 2 nanometers are getting ready to arrive now and where IBM was also the first to come out with this process years ago, still wants to produce a production process that although I understand it is proprietary ok, in the end IBM customizes all its processes and gives the directives to those who produce them to make them only for it, is now outdated? How come, having this technology first and obviously with more time to perfect it than the others, having arrived first, it does not exploit this advantage and this excellent research and development work at all, to produce its Microprocessors? I honestly can't understand... So much investment money for what I wonder...

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General Discussion / Immages in C

« on: May 04, 2025, 04:30:27 pm »

Sorry guys, I was trying to insert images in jpg format in a code written in C, but I can't figure out how to do it. I've read various information on the net but nothing that is really useful. I was wondering if it is possible to load images using C as a programming language...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: April 06, 2025, 03:25:59 pm »

Yes, in fact it is not yet the case to venture into purchases of this kind considering that we are still at the beginning and the support is only at the beginning. We will see how it will evolve, I am in no hurry to move to a new card, when the time is ripe and the support is complete, then I will carefully evaluate making the purchase. In the meantime the market settles and the software improves and becomes more and more stable.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: March 29, 2025, 04:58:03 pm »

The size of these cards depends on the manufacturers and what is emerging. However, it seems that the 2-slot ones are only produced by Power Color, so unfortunately there is little choice regarding the third-party manufacturer. Probably the PRO versions will all be 2-slot but we will have to wait for the release and the prices will obviously be higher than the current counterpart. I would also like to switch to this card, but I think we will have to wait a long time before having the possibility of having the adequate support software on Power. I personally need a card that is 2 slots and that is not more than 40 mm thick otherwise I will not be able to insert it into my computer...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] How we use a Raptor Blackbird to improve PP64LE support on Apache Projects

« on: February 09, 2025, 12:13:03 pm »

Welcome to our forum and our OpenPower community, I just watched your video on YouTube, nice work. It's always nice to see new support for our favorite machine and architecture of course. Thanks for your support.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: February 01, 2025, 03:58:24 pm »

Interessante pure per me queste nuove schede AMD, sopra a tutto se saranno a 2 slot essendo io obbligato nella mia configurazione dove ho pure lo slot PCIe a 8 pin, occuopato dalla scheda audio. Vorrei aggiornare quindi dopo anni, passando dalla mia attuaele Radeon 5700 XT, a una di queste nuove RDNA4 che sembrano interessanti. Spero sia confermato che usino solo 2 slot...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: December 07, 2024, 09:17:59 am »

I see that the situation is getting worse and worse guys... I just disassembled the Fedora hard disk and that's it, I wouldn't want it to cause problems to other parts of the computer as I'm seeing happen to Markr87... In short, it's absurd that a distro should create all these problems all of a sudden, I was just finishing singing the praises for the return of Fedora on Power in a decent way and boom, more problems and bugs... Total disappointment, without taking into account that until recently Chromium for example, continued to crash in the same way...

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium for Ubuntu

« on: December 01, 2024, 04:27:48 pm »

Yes, I also think at this point, that the guide is now outdated and you have to update because I am realizing that there are several inconsistencies with what I am doing. But I noticed, however, that the source that Raptor supports for a while now, I saw that his interior are almost all the files that have been created with the work I did from I did from 0. I ask myself then and if yes Did you try to fill in and install those who have already done? The point is, however, that I don't know what procedure it takes, I have not found news to be able to do it, I would like to try at least to see if using those springs already ready, you can also make a chromium for ubuntu at least ... if you You know how to make the compilation of those sources would be a great thing ...

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium for Ubuntu

« on: December 01, 2024, 05:42:41 am »

Going back I realized that I probably made a big mistake of interpretation in this part that but now I don't understand.
Raptor tells me that after making the compilation, I have to download the source code of Chromium, to do so, however, I have to make sure that it is depot_tools` both in your path by extracting your Env.sh and then insert the commands:
 $ cd $ chromium_dir
$ mkir chromium && cd chromium
$ fetch--no-history-chromium
The problem is now that I don't understand what it means to tell me to make sure that Depot_tools is in the path by extracting Env.sh
Can you tell me what I should do so to make sure of this?