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

« on: July 29, 2025, 04:50:04 am »

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

I'm currently browsing this site, and the RAM I'm using with Chromium on Ubuntu is around 4 GB total, with 2.2 GB currently cached. I think the average performance on Debian, which works similarly, is very similar or even the same as what I'm currently using on Ubuntu.

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

« on: July 28, 2025, 04:33:46 am »

I was trying to see how much RAM Chromium on Debian is consuming, but suddenly, after the latest update, it stopped working again. This time, even deleting the files and reinstalling Chromium didn't fix the problem. I'm currently without Chromium on Debian and honestly don't understand what's going on...

Update: I finally managed to install Chromium on Ubuntu. This is because I finally managed to install the jpeg62-turbo lib library, which isn't included in the Ubuntu repositories by default.
Initially, it would close immediately and not work. I thought it was having problems here on Ubuntu too. Then I decided to delete all the old files that were left over from the old Chromium 87 when I installed it on the old Ubuntu 20. At that point, the browser reverted to factory settings and started working normally. Now I can finally use Chromium on Ubuntu 24.4, which makes it even more complete as a Linux distro on Power.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16

« on: July 28, 2025, 04:31:29 am »

The point now is to understand when there will be stable support for the new rdna 4 instead, I would like to buy for example the radeon pro 9700 to upgrade my 5700 after a long time... We'll see what happens in the next few months...

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

« on: July 25, 2025, 12:09:38 pm »

It's a little clearer now. I remember when I used it on Fedora, I noticed that it was indeed a little slower than its Debian counterpart, but I never noticed any RAM usage. At this point, I think it's a problem with the Fedora version because on Debian the browser browses well and quickly, so I don't think there are any issues with excessive RAM usage. In any case, as soon as I start it, I'll let you know how much it uses while browsing.

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

« on: July 25, 2025, 01:11:44 am »

To be honest, I haven't checked this. As soon as I run it and keep it running, I'll check the usage and let you know. 17 GB of RAM is a lot. Do you see it while it's open without browsing, or when you're browsing? Or when you have multiple pages open, let me explain better...

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

« on: July 20, 2025, 03:04:20 pm »

But now mine is working properly again. I thought it was a bug because it happened during an update, so I thought it was just a bug. Instead, it was my Chromium that had a problem, and I had to reinstall everything and delete all the files it retained.
What I'm most disappointed about is that I can't have Chromium on Ubuntu now that this distro finally works well on Power after such a long time. The good thing is that since it's a deb package, it should be fully compatible, but instead I've tried installing it several times, but nothing, it just won't work. What a shame, damn it.

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

« on: July 17, 2025, 10:19:50 am »

I had the problem with the last update, but even after the update, it still didn't work. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Chromium, but the bug still persisted. I then decided to delete all the Chromium files, then uninstall and reinstall again, and this time it worked. So perhaps the problem was with some additional file that Chromium uses to work.

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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...