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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, Funny) by TomTheFighter on Tuesday August 04 2020, @02:07PM (2 children)

    by TomTheFighter (9781) on Tuesday August 04 2020, @02:07PM (#1031235)

    >This is also the first major kernel release featuring the new inclusive terminology guidelines.

    Nice to see that Linux has finally gone main stream.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:17PM (#1031252)

    Now you'll have to get gay-married and burn the flag every time you log in. Satan is Lord, Satan is Lord. Oh wait, no you won't!

    • (Score: 0) by TomTheFighter on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:25PM

      by TomTheFighter (9781) on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:25PM (#1031256)

      That has nothing to do with the cute little ascii art daemons I see when my bsd boxes boot up.