alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 5 months agoRISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linuxwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down12
arrow-up1176arrow-down1external-linkRISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linuxwww.tomshardware.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 5 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoI remember the ‘good old days’ of Sun Fire 10k and similar servers. You could replace entire boards of CPU and RAM and the server would keep on trucking.
minus-squareDaPorkchop_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoIBM System-Z mainframes still support CPU hot-swapping AFAIK.
minus-squarefartsparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoDon’t. I still miss Sun. I miss that “Hey, fuck MS Office’s crazy pricing. Let’s buy their competitor for less and open source it!” energy. We need more of that in these times. I remap Caps Lock to Ctrl to this day as that’s where it’s meant to be, god damn it!
I remember the ‘good old days’ of Sun Fire 10k and similar servers. You could replace entire boards of CPU and RAM and the server would keep on trucking.
IBM System-Z mainframes still support CPU hot-swapping AFAIK.
Don’t. I still miss Sun. I miss that “Hey, fuck MS Office’s crazy pricing. Let’s buy their competitor for less and open source it!” energy.
We need more of that in these times.
I remap Caps Lock to Ctrl to this day as that’s where it’s meant to be, god damn it!