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Stories · 4
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What Happened to ABIT's Gentus Linux?
Evangelion asks: "Earlier this year, Slashdot reported on ABit's own Linux Distro, Gentus Linux (and thier subsequent violation of the GPL). Well, whatever happened to them? Thier website seems to be non-existent at the moment. I'm asking as I've found myself in a rather irritating situation: as a recent purchaser of ABit's fine KT7-RAID motherboard, I have discovered that the IDE RAID controller on it isn't well supported in Linux, in that it can't actually do RAID, only single drives. How this relates to Gentus Linux is that it was supposed to support IDE RAID with the HPT370, and it was the only distro to actually do so. Does anyone know of any confirmation or denial to this? What happened to Gentus Linux? Did it get canned after the GPL issues? More to the point, is there any way I can get my RAID controller working in Linux?" -
Abit Violating The GPL?
petard writes: "I just learned about Abit's GNU/Linux distribution, Gentus. According to this discussion, it seems that Abit has not seen fit to release source code to their modifications of various GPL'd utilities. Even worse, it appears that they've slightly modified BP6Mon (from redseb at GoUPiL) and released it binary-only and under the "Abit License"! " Allright, everyone turn off the flames and concentrate on making sure that they are in fact distributing in binary-form-only GPLd code. We need a good contact point @abit to send a polite reminder. If you can't be polite, you won't help anything. -
CPU Heat w/ Distributed.Net Client?
yamla asks: "I run a dual-Celeron machine ( ABIT BP6) and primarily use Linux. I am concerned about heat and so I have added a second fan and used thermal paste. When I run the distributed.net client, the heat is CPU1:45C(113F), CPU2:49C(120F), SYS:55C(131F). Without this client running, my system is about ten degrees cooler at CPU1:34C(93F), CPU2:35C(95F), SYS:44C(111F). My question is simple. Should I stop running the distributed.net client or is this difference in heat nothing to be concerned about?" Wow! I've heard of hot software, but this might be too literal for comfort. -
CPU Heat w/ Distributed.Net Client?
yamla asks: "I run a dual-Celeron machine ( ABIT BP6) and primarily use Linux. I am concerned about heat and so I have added a second fan and used thermal paste. When I run the distributed.net client, the heat is CPU1:45C(113F), CPU2:49C(120F), SYS:55C(131F). Without this client running, my system is about ten degrees cooler at CPU1:34C(93F), CPU2:35C(95F), SYS:44C(111F). My question is simple. Should I stop running the distributed.net client or is this difference in heat nothing to be concerned about?" Wow! I've heard of hot software, but this might be too literal for comfort.