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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by raverbashing on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:13PM (#19574705)
To be honest, in regards to ACPI it was a very painful couple of years until Linux got the hang of it and stopped breaking for any issue

(It also took some Perkele by Linus to make it work correctly)

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by waterside81 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:09PM (#19575984)
For those like me who don't know what "Perkele" is:

Perkele means evil spirit in Finnish and is a popular Finnish profanity.

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Re:Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that ... by benj111 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:05PM (#19576530)
Thanks, I was about to google, but had guessed correctly anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele

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