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on Sunday February 05 2017, @07:31PM
from the diminished-user-base-on-old-boxes dept.
from the diminished-user-base-on-old-boxes dept.
The privacy-centric TAILS Linux distro (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) announces:
Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor. As opposed to older versions of Tails, it will not work on 32-bit processors.
We have waited for years until we felt it was the right time to do this switch. Still, this was a hard decision for us to make.
[...] Our current goal is to release Tails 3.0, and stop supporting computers with a 32-bit processor, on June 13, 2017.
Announced February 1: Tails 2.10 is out.
The site's news page (which could REALLY use #FragmentIdentifiers MUCH more effectively) says:
Tails 2.11 is scheduled for March 3rd.
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 05 2017, @08:59PM
I don't think AMD is using the FX codename for Zen/Ryzen chips:
http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-processor-family-leak-r7-1800x-flagship/ [wccftech.com]
PSP has been renamed to AMD Secure Processor, so that might hurt your search for answers.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @09:51PM
AM4 *DOES* have PSP/SP.
Meaning 2-3 generation old intel hardware is the best you can get and mostly disable the Management Engine/Security Processor.
For AMD 2nd Gen G34 chips, or AM3+ chips are the best you can get on the AMD side (with ECC), or FM2 (not +!) on the consumer side.
Anything newer from either company has non-microcode signed firmware binaries running unknown software on secondary processors, many of which have unrestricted, or unrestrictable access to main memory, and in some cases complete use of the IO bus without CPU/chipset notification to the OS.
This is a dark time for computing, unless RISC-V or SH/J chips get released in a desktop/notebook featureset. All the current alternatives either have their own signed management processor implementation, or lack the memory/io bus options to allow full system construction.
Secondarily we need an open source gpu taped to complement it. There are at least two projects out which might cover this, at least one of which should allow OG3 or OGL4 level support with sufficient speed and memory for a composited desktop but not 3d gaming without further refinements.