{"id":18878,"date":"2020-05-28T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/look-whats-inside-linus-torvalds-latest-linux-development-pc.html"},"modified":"2020-05-28T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:01:08","slug":"look-whats-inside-linus-torvalds-latest-linux-development-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/look-whats-inside-linus-torvalds-latest-linux-development-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Look what’s inside Linus Torvalds’ latest Linux development PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML<\/a>), Linus Torvalds, Linux’s top developer, talked about the latest progress in the next version of Linux: Linux 5.7-rc7<\/a>. Along the way, he mentioned, “for the first time in about 15 years, my desktop isn’t Intel-based.” In his newest development box, he’s “rocking an AMD Threadripper 3970x<\/a>.” But a computer is more than just a processor no matter how speedy it is, so I talked with Torvalds to see exactly what’s in his new box.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, he’s already impressed by its performance:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“My ‘allmodconfig’ test builds are now three times faster than they used to be, which doesn’t matter so much right now during the calming down period, but I will most definitely notice the upgrade during the next merge window,” said Torvalds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The AMD Threadripper 3970x comes with 32 cores. It’s built using AMD’s 7-nanometer “Zen 2” core architecture, and it boasts 88 PCIe 4.0. AMD claims it’s up to 90% faster than its competition. Phoronix<\/a>‘s independent tests found the “Threadripper 3970X absolutely dominates in performance<\/a> and “outpaces the Core i9 10980XE.”<\/p>\n

Torvalds is a build-your-own box type of guy.<\/p>\n

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“I typically build all my own machines. Usually they are frankenboxes — I’ll re-use the case or the SSD from the previous machine or something like that. This time it was an all-new build,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why do it yourself?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I don’t like having others build my machine, partly because I have my own specs I care most about, but partly I get self-conscious about getting donations that I no longer really need,” Torvalds said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Before this latest build, his box was an i9-9900k<\/a>. Normally, Torvalds would just pop into the local Fry’s to pick up some of the more basic stuff directly, but with the virus, this time it was all from Amazon. The pieces came in over a few weeks (no more two-day shipping of computer parts these days); the last two pieces came last Friday.<\/p>\n

So, here’s Torvald’s annotated hardware list:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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