Gnulinux is a free and open source software operating system for computers. The dragonmint t1558 chip is the firstever 10nm bitcoin mining chip. Today kernel developer con kolivas announced that he will stop developing his linux patch which improves desktop performance. V6 client software previous version linux cpu v6 client. Con kolivas introduces new bfs scheduler linux magazine. Con kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past. This means that the source to any modifications you make to this code must be provided by law if you distribute modified binaries. Purpose 3 con kolivas brain fuck scheduler bfs was designed to provide superior desktop interactivity and responsiveness to machines running it. If you want to operate your miner without active cooling, we recommend a clock rate up to 100 mhz max. The file size of the latest installer available for download is 2. Ubuntu s objective of becoming the distribution that finally brings linux to human beings, i. Installing litecoin client and mining software in ubuntu following the success of bitcoin many different peertopeercurrencies have appeared on the internet. His staircase scheduler was designed with interactivity in mind, especially for desktop systems, where people want their system to be quickly responsive under all kinds of workloads. Con kolivas returns, with a desktoporiented linux scheduler.
The following command will start up the cgminer software example. Download cgminer packages for arch linux, centos, debian, ubuntu. He quit linux kernel development because he was frustrated with this lack of focus on the desktop, and then gave a tell all interview on the topic. Con kolivas ckpool it is unknown if this will work with your vrm node.
Few linux distributions have been able to achieve equal success on both the desktop and enterprise fronts. For people who have followed recent discussions about his sd cpu scheduler and about the inclusion of his swap prefetching patches in the linux kernel this will not come as a surprise the ck patch set was popular especially. It supports the getblocktemplate mining protocol as well as the stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled mining. Datamation open source sidux, a great alternative to ubuntu, part 2. On linux when tmpdir is mounted on a different partition it fails to move the file due to it being across partitions with the error. Not being a software developer or anything like that although youd be interested to know there are medics who are hard core devs too, like dr. Con kolivas 15qsxp1sqcux3o4nhkfdbgyowefmomj4rz note. Folding forum view topic con kolivas patchset reborn. Con kolivas who is a practicing anesthesiologist in australia and maintains their societys website, the free as in speech doesnt really get my attention as much as the free as in beer. Its simultaneous and thus far successful pursuit of the server market, however, is perhaps yet more impressive. Kolivas takes break from designing covid19 equipment to.
Con kolivas is basically a spoilt brat coder half promising users solutions then not going to follow the process threw to give users solutions. Brain fuck scheduler wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Whether more people love ubuntu or loathe it is an impossible question to answer. The tapeout was in april 2017 and first chips came back between late august and early september 2017, various manufacturing and engineering challenges were worked through as first prototype miners were assembled. Canonical, con focal fossa, ha sostituito lapplicazione software ubuntu con una versione che installa gli snap per impostazione predefinita. Typically, linux is packaged in a form known as a linux distribution or distro for short for both desktop and server use. Renowned programmer con kolivas was unsatisfied with linux desktop performance. Con kolivas patchset reborn, uses 100% cpu on our client sun sep, 2009 8. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. In fact, bfs appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16cpu machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. Mark richard shuttleworth is a south african and british entrepreneur who is the founder and ceo of canonical ltd. I decided to quote this particular song since its one of my favorites and since it also effectively captures the theme of this, my final entry in the series on why ubuntu still close ad infoworld.
Con kolivas is working on a new scheduler for desktop. Con kolivas is a staunch and stalwart supporter of btc only, so theres a strong chance it does not. Idiintroduction p 2 urpose benchmark details test cpussystems. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Therefore, linus torvalds must hate linux on the desktop. Fork a kernel, kill an os and revolutionize the desktop. It was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. Node open mining portal very popular software with pool managers of a wide variety of algos. He has worked as a computer programmer on the linux kernel and on the development of the cryptographic currency mining software cgminer. Con kolivas is a prominent developer on the linux kernel and strong proponent of linux on the desktop. Anaesthetist, software engineer author of cgminer, ckpool, admin of. Con kolivas project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Recently i have seen an webupd8 article about an alternative kenrel to the stock ubuntu kernel, the pfkernel, that supposed increases performance.
Con kolivas has been maintaining an alternative scheduler for some time. The example above shows a solomining configuration in con kolivas solo mining pool. Ubuntu initially wrapped things in a pretty little package and did a. I know people who spend most of their free time promoting it as volunteers and just as many who denounce it as a betrayal of everything free and open source software foss represents. The clock rate can be set with the following commandline parameter. Cgminer is a popular app in this category but like many, it requires advanced users for.
In 2002, he became the first south african to travel to space as a space tourist. He lives on the isle of man and holds dual citizenship from south africa and the united kingdom. His linux contributions include patches for the kernel to improve its desktop. Til that desktop linux was a very neglected area of. What vendor actually makes good proprietary software for linux. Fork a kernel, kill an os and revolutionize the desktop the news of con kolivas, a linux kernel developer, quitting that role, along with an interview in which he explains why, could and should make loud noises around the free software community which is often touting gnulinux as the best operating system one could use, and not just. And even though it was designed by following the basic principles behind bitcoin, it has some major differences. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. His linux contributions include patches for the kernel to improve its desktop performance, particularly reducing io imp.
Con kolivas patchset reborn, uses 100% cpu on our client. No major changes this time besides rebasing against the latest stable kernel series. Con kolivas spent his time trying to improve linux on the desktop. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific. Btw i believe the previous poster answer has a typo, timer interrupts of 100hz are generally for servers while rt audio. The actual developer of the software is con kolivas. Chakra a communitydeveloped gnulinux distribution with an emphasis on kde and qt technologies, utilizing. Overdramatic til that desktop linux was a very neglected area of development until 2007 when con kolivas accused the linux community of favoring performance on servers and gave a tell all. The program lies within business tools, more precisely finances. Slinkysausage writes linux is burdened with enterprise crap that makes it run poorly on desktop pcs, says kernel developer con kolivas. Consider running a system with dedicated gpu w pcie. Preparation, package dependencies, configuration and build with raspbian 4. Things have calmed down on the covid19 front enough for me to update my patches to the latest linux kernel.
What parameters need to be set if i want to enable aliasing like in sox. A development blog of what con kolivas is doing with code at the moment with the emphasis on linux kernel, muqss, bfs and ck. This scheduler has been optimized a lot through the years, and as such is very stable. An easy way to enable ck patches archive ubuntu forums. Currently supported algorithms are sha256d and scryptn, 1, 1. Create a project open source software business software top downloaded projects. In the past, the performance of linux on the desktop has been a controversial topic.
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