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Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 10 2020, @07:18PM   
from the lots-of-new-and-shiny dept.

spiraldancing writes:

www.phoronix.com

This kernel is simply huge: there is so many new and improved features with this particular release that it's mind-boggling. I'm having difficulty remembering such a time a kernel release was so large.

The quick summary of Linux 5.6 changes include: WireGuard, USB4, open-source NVIDIA RTX 2000 series support, AMD Pollock enablement, lots of new hardware support, a lot of file-system / storage work, multi-path TCP bits are finally going mainline, Year 2038 work beginning to wrap-up for 32-bit systems, the new AMD TEE driver for tapping the Secure Processor, the first signs of AMD Zen 3, better AMD Zen/Zen2 thermal and power reporting under Linux, at long last having an in-kernel SATA drive temperature for HWMON, and a lot of other kernel infrastructure improvements.

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• Re:This kernel is simply huge (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @09:58PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @09:58PM (#956555)

  People who compile kernels in flight might not be like other people who don't. If compiling kernels was part of their job, maybe they even hack on that kernel?

  Maybe if they were a diversity hire. In 04, watching a DVD would have also used a lot of juice. newb error.

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