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ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux

([Hardware] 6 Hours Ago ARCTIC Fan Controller)


A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel.

Aureo Serrano of ARCTIC Cooling posted the hardware monitoring (HWMON) Linux driver for review. The ARCTIC Fan Controller supports 10 fan channels and this driver gets the fan speed reporting and PWM fan speed controls working using the standardized Linux HWMON interfaces.

This driver is just around 300 lines of C code and developed by ARCTIC. Simple device, simple driver but great to see the vendor directly working on this fan controller driver rather than leaving it up to the open-source community as is so often the case with such desktop/gaming/enthusiast type peripherals.

Those interested in this ARCTIC Fan Controller driver for Linux can find it currently out for review on the [1]Linux kernel mailing list .



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/FR6P281MB590006F97DAC7A5C224D957BEF7FA@FR6P281MB5900.DEUP281.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/


Elite Nerds Create Linux Distro From Hell

HELL, MICHIGAN -- A group of long-time Linux zealots and newbie haters
have thrown together a new Linux distro called Hellix that is so
user-hostile, so anti-newbie, so cryptic, and so old-fashioned that it
actually makes MS-DOS look like a real operating system. Said the founder
of the project, "I'm sick and tired of the Windowsification of the Linux
desktop in a fruitless attempt to make the system more appealing to
newbies, PHBs, and MCSEs. Linux has always been for nerds only, and we
want to make sure it stays that way!"

One of the other Bastard Distributors From Hell explained, "In the last
five years think of all the hacking effort spent on Linux... and for what?
We have nothing to show for it but half-finished Windows-like desktops, vi
dancing paperclips, and graphical front-ends to configuration files. Real
nerds use text files for configuration, darnit, and they like it! It's
time to take a stand against the hordes of newbies that are polluting our
exclusive operating system."

One Anonymous Coward said, "This is so cool... It's just like Unix back in
the good old days of the 70's when men were men and the only intuitive
interface was still the nipple."