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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:34AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @04:34AM (#956728) Journal

    Devuan seems to be coming along nicely--tried Ascii-with-an-upgrade-to-Beowulf-first-thing in Virtualbox this weekend and was very impressed compared to how it was just a year ago. If you're a little more tech-savvy, Artix is absolutely wonderful and I used it for about 18 months, Slackware is still around. Gentoo is still around (and still compiling emerge -e @world, LOL). Void is awesome in its own special, quirky way.

    There are options, and thank Madokami for that. Can always try an BSD if you like, too :)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @01:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @01:39PM (#956822)

    I ran FreeBSD for years. Only a while ago I switched to Ubuntu. I admit I don't notice or care about systemd until something screws up. Then I wonder why they did these things this way