Indeed Haswell. I noted some people saying they were having trouble with installations involving this chipset. Similarly UEFI issues. It would be good, and I think in OCLUG scope, to point to good choices. Otherwise folk will be locked into that partial operating system.
JN On 14-02-19 05:26 PM, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:29:45PM -0500, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: >> It would be useful to me, and I suspect to others, to have a brief >> discussion of "reasonable" choices for machines on which to install >> Linux, particularly laptops etc. I've seen some discussion of the >> chromebooks, noise about Haskell processors, > > Haskell or Haswell? Haswell is a generation of Intel microprocessors. > Haskell is a high-level, purely-functional programming language. Pretty > sure you mean the latter. > >> as well as UEFI concerns. > > Anything in particular? > > Known-good motherboard lists would be nice, or at least some pointers. > Not sure whether that should be in our scope though. > >> I'll be willing to try to capture the discussion and post on the OCLUG wiki. > > Anyhow, do you mean that there are boot-breaking, graphics-breaking, or > power consumption problems with Haswell? Other? > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1308994 > https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/2vEekAsG2QT > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
