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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 Re:This kernel is simply huge (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:14AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:14AM (#956750)

  OK well fly, maybe. Would you accept crash nearby?

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• Re:This kernel is simply huge (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday February 11 2020, @07:24PM

  by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @07:24PM (#956937) Journal

  No! This is the year of the Airtop!

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  This sig for rent.

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