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Re: Longest LTS - still SL/RHEL?
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"James M. Pulver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:30:59 +0000
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You know, on the Lenovo laptops anyway, you can go into the BIOS and turn off internal graphics and always use the nVidia card.



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James Pulver

CLASSE Computer Group

Cornell University





-----Original Message-----

From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karel Lang AFD

Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:12 AM

To: Akemi Yagi

Cc: [log in to unmask]; <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Re: Longest LTS - still SL/RHEL?



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Thanks Akemi - i know. Thanks to a community of a bright and knowledge-sharing ppl we have at least this.

(Linus Torvalds said it nicely a while ago ..(cite) "Fuck you Nvidia!" :]] )



But let's be blunt - it is not perfect, heck, it's not working correctly even on M$ windows. I read tons of Win users complains about this.



I think that if i had to (was forced to) buy new laptop for linux nowadays, i'd buy most probably something with Kaveri APU from AMD (like eg. HP EliteBook 745 G2) .. Intel has good CPUs but bad VGAs and Optimus won't help you much, because it means you look at a bad pictures on screen most of the time (using Intel Vga).



AMD Kaveri APU has ofc worse CPU part compared to Intel APUs - but - do i need the CPU computing power here on laptop - no i dont, but do i need good sharp picture? Yes i need that one.

Why should i buy Optimus with Nvidia 1GB Ram card, which is used only 5% of time then and 95% time is used ugly Intel VGA?

Haha, i see it just as another clever plot to trick out us, poor users.





Anyway this became a bit offtopic, sorry for that :]]







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*Karel Lang*

*Unix/Linux Administration*

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On 12/17/2014 02:27 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Karel Lang AFD <[log in to unmask] 

> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

>

>

>     New Lenovo laps is a screwups with worse keyboard - oh my god,

>     trackpad - wth is this, what genius thought it out?

>     Next 'bright spot' generally is NVIDIA Optimus - OMDG ...

>

>   For Nvidia optimus, you may want to try ELRepo's bumblebee:

>

> http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee

>

> Akemi

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