The fastest Windows on XCP-ng is the one you don’t install
2026-06-29
Installing Windows from scratch on XCP-ng is a fight with the paravirtual disk driver, and you can lose a day to it. Skip the installer: Microsoft ships prebuilt evaluation VHDs, so you import the disk and boot straight into a finished Windows.
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➦ Twelve Years, One Bet on PowerPC: The Power Progress Community Story
2026-05-12
Twelve years of volunteer work, one open hardware PowerPC board, and the community that refused to quit. The Power Progress Community story.
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➦ NanoClaw on RISC-V: from “it works on my board” to automated builds
2026-03-15
Setting up RISC-V GitHub Actions runners to build and publish riscv64 Docker images of NanoClaw automatically. Part 2 of a 2-part series covering feasibility and CI/CD automation.
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➦ NanoClaw on RISC-V: Running an AI Agent Runtime on a Banana Pi F3
2026-03-14
Getting NanoClaw, an open-source AI agent runtime, running on RISC-V hardware (SpacemiT K1 / Banana Pi F3). Part 1 of a 3-part series covering feasibility, Docker containerization, and the path to upstream support.
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➦ Benchmarking llama.cpp on SpacemiT K3: RISC-V AI Cores vs Standard RVV (Part 4)
2026-03-12
Benchmarking llama.cpp on SpacemiT's K3 RISC-V chip with three models: X100 cores hit 76 t/s, A100 AI cores are 30x slower on pp until vendor IME2 code unlocks 111 t/s.
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➦ First Words: LLM Inference on RISC-V
2026-03-11
Running LLM inference on RISC-V with the Python ML stack. Transformers generates text at 0.15-0.93 tok/s on a BananaPi F3, while llama.cpp hits 8.21 tok/s.
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