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

« Last post by lepidotos on March 30, 2025, 11:22:59 pm »

Yeah, same here. I think the PowerColor is the option to go for if you're either impatient or just don't have the money for a workstation card, I think W7700 is still a few hundred more used vs. the 9070 XT Reaper at retail price and that's for a card that's not as powerful and has the same amount of memory. W7800, which would be the real equivalent, is easily $1500 minimum used. There's also the 9070 Reaper and Hellhound, both of which are also 40mm, and we'll have to see about the 9060 and 60 XT, I would hope that they wouldn't reuse 340 W coolers for 150 W cards, but honestly, I can't be sure with the hardware industry the way it is.

At least it's PowerColor, a known and generally liked brand that we're stuck with, and not Asus or the like who are definitely known and less so liked, or a brand with neither quality.

As far as I know, there's already support for RDNA4 in amdgpu so it should hopefully be generally good to go, though until someone actually buys one to test it that's gonna be an unknown. Personally, I'm not looking to move on from my RX 570 for at minimum another 6 months, possibly a year. Just whenever the full RDNA4 lineup is out on the market and available reliably at retail price, and couldn't afford to even if I wanted at the moment anyway.

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

« Last post by MauryG5 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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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by DKnoto on March 27, 2025, 10:04:12 am »

However it is not fair to say its UX is the most pleasant to use.

It depends on habits. For me, at one time it was very convenient. I am not a proponent of implementing by force a UI that is good for a phone on a desktop computer, which the Gnome team is persistently pushing on us.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)

« Last post by tle on March 26, 2025, 10:07:12 pm »

Hi

Thank you for contributing to OpenMoHAA and testing it.

I watched your three videos with OpenMoHAA, and I'm surprised it works so well on your computer. I was expecting some weird bugs and stability issues because this project didn't have too many PPC Linux users. 

I know that Cowcat had some problems porting it to MorphOS (PPC), but maybe that would helped with some issues on the Raptor computers.

The POWER9 has more than enough juice to run the game smoothly despite of the fact there is no JIT VM support for PPC64LE.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by tle on March 26, 2025, 06:13:26 pm »

A consistent UI is what had BeOS 30 years ago, now Haiku.  All written in C++ and completely unrelated to X11. Strangely, no one came up with the idea of porting that ready-made UI to Linux, they just messed around with Gnome and KDE. On Wayland the most suitable for me is Hyprland, unfortunately it is still far from full functionality.

BeOS is truly a cohesive and unique ecosystem. However it is not fair to say its UX is the most pleasant to use. Big guys like MS and Apple are still trying to figure out the UX as the hardware has advanced at rapid pace introducing new ways of doing interaction. GNOME and KDE will likely play the followers role than leading the industry. It's unfortunate yet understandable...

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Linux 6.14

« Last post by tle on March 26, 2025, 08:12:51 am »

It is out! More details could be found at https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14

There are no mentioning of any PowerPC-related changes unfortunately.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)

« Last post by gbudny on March 25, 2025, 07:31:08 pm »

Hi

Thank you for contributing to OpenMoHAA and testing it.

I watched your three videos with OpenMoHAA, and I'm surprised it works so well on your computer. I was expecting some weird bugs and stability issues because this project didn't have too many PPC Linux users. 

I know that Cowcat had some problems porting it to MorphOS (PPC), but maybe that would helped with some issues on the Raptor computers. 

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by DKnoto on March 25, 2025, 02:11:08 pm »

A consistent UI is what had BeOS 30 years ago, now Haiku.  All written in C++ and completely unrelated to X11. Strangely, no one came up with the idea of porting that ready-made UI to Linux, they just messed around with Gnome and KDE. On Wayland the most suitable for me is Hyprland, unfortunately it is still far from full functionality.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by tle on March 25, 2025, 07:41:53 am »

At my place Wayland works strangely, and in fact a whole bunch of applications have problems with it, and I don't have the strength to inquire whether it's just the protocol or not. To me, it's just an incomplete product, which instead of bridging the divide between different DEs only exacerbates it by blaming the lack of support for a certain element on some DE or library. The result is that applications written for one DE will not work well on another. Applications with the latest Gtk are already a complete departure, they operate according to the principle of if you're with us it's ok if you're with us and if you're not it's off.

Spot on! Things have changed, we no longer have to mix and match softwares, WMs and DE like we used to. These days you pick one faction and stick with it. To be fair I find myself more productive with such DEs because of consistent UX. It's amazing to see how far Linux desktop has come! Having said that I sometimes miss those old days forever poking into countless of combination of configs and softwares.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« Last post by DKnoto on March 24, 2025, 03:52:00 pm »

At my place Wayland works strangely, and in fact a whole bunch of applications have problems with it, and I don't have the strength to inquire whether it's just the protocol or not. To me, it's just an incomplete product, which instead of bridging the divide between different DEs only exacerbates it by blaming the lack of support for a certain element on some DE or library. The result is that applications written for one DE will not work well on another. Applications with the latest Gtk are already a complete departure, they operate according to the principle of if you're with us it's ok if you're with us and if you're not it's off.