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posted by martyb on Monday August 03 2020, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-release-did-you-start-with? dept.

Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting

As for changes over the past week, there was also a security fix making it harder to guess the network RNG's internal state.

See our Linux 5.8 feature overview for all the exciting changes from an AMD Energy Driver for Zen/Zen2 CPUs to new F2FS compression capabilities, POWER10 CPUs starting to boot with the mainline kernel code, power management improvements, and much more. This is also the first major kernel release featuring the new inclusive terminology guidelines.

Linus Torvalds.

See also: Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8
Linux 5.8 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS, and RISC-V Architectures
Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities
IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9


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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday August 04 2020, @01:18PM

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Tuesday August 04 2020, @01:18PM (#1031217)

    You believe in chaining stuff up and putting it in a jail. I see the tendencies but beware: the demons may rise, escape through a side channel, circumvent the watch dog and kill the master process. What is left will be tainted by the dirty bit and the garbage collectors will devour those unjustly marked. Oh, the racism...