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.
See also: Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8
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(Score: 1, Funny) by TomTheFighter on Tuesday August 04 2020, @02:07PM (2 children)
>This is also the first major kernel release featuring the new inclusive terminology guidelines.
Nice to see that Linux has finally gone main stream.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:17PM (1 child)
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
That has nothing to do with the cute little ascii art daemons I see when my bsd boxes boot up.