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Linux reaches the big five (point) oh
Linux fans will be relieved to know that while 2019 should feature a gentler, softer and less sweary Torvalds, the man's ability to make arbitrary decisions remains undiminished. The reason version 4.21 became 5.0 is because "I ran out of fingers and toes to count on."
As Torvalds observed, there are a ton of changes in the new kernel with toys aplenty. Raspberry Pi fans get touchscreen support and there is the usual array of GPU and CPU enhancements, including some early support for Nvidia's Turing GPUs, which will be of interest to those following CES 2019.
AMD has also seen some love in the form of tweaks to the handling of CPU microcode as well as the arrival of FreeSync, which synchronises the refresh rate of a compatible display to the frame rate of a similarly equipped Radeon card.
Not to be left out, work has continued on Intel's Icelake graphics and, of course, ongoing mitigation for Spectre V2 and its ilk. NXP PowerPC processor received mitigation this time around while Linux's networking subsystem has been tweaked to at least partially deal with the performance hit introduced in 2018 as a result of handling the Meltdown issue.
You know you want to - crank up the theme song!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 09 2019, @08:18AM (3 children)
Ummm... I seem to be missing the relevance of this in the context. Do you care to clarify?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @08:25AM (1 child)
>Linux fans will be relieved to know that while 2019 should feature a gentler, softer and less sweary Torvalds, the
Obliquely Refers to the CoC.
The document that threatens linux programmers with expulsion if they do not adhere to speech codes.
They have a remedy: rescind the code.
It is no lie.
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:58PM
That may be a "remedy", but I'm not sure it's a legal right. Not at all sure. In fact, I tend to believe otherwise. This may, of course, depend on what jurisdiction you live in, but my understanding of the GPLv2 was that the license could only be revoked on certain listed particular grounds...like modifying the code and selling it as closed source. Refusing to accept further changes from the contributor was not one of the listed grounds.
OTOH IANAL. Also, as I said, this is likely to differ in different jurisdictions.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Funny) by isostatic on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:48AM
Mysoginist basement dweller who doesn't like girls