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

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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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by sjames on Tuesday February 11 2020, @12:43AM (2 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @12:43AM (#956629) Journal

    With the exception of a few non-essential parts, Qt is LGPL. That means you can link your commercial product against it at will. If you don't like Qt, GTK is also LGPL.

    Now ask MS and Apple what it'll cost you for an equivalent license that will also let you look under the hood.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:58AM (#956737)

    And if GP is such a Windows fanboy, libwine is also LGPL.

  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:01PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:01PM (#956913) Journal

    Thanks; +Informative.