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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 edIII on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:05PM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:05PM (#957905)

    Yes, you do. If you code for a living, you want me to use your code because it compensates you in some way. The only way I would buy your code is if it was completely non obfuscated, which is a wholly reasonable position at this point.

    I responded to the wrong post though, still :)

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday February 14 2020, @02:27AM (1 child)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday February 14 2020, @02:27AM (#958021) Journal

    Yes, you do.

    No, I don't. I really don't.

    If you code for a living, you want me to use your code because it compensates you in some way.

    I'll let 'ol Will answer that one:

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

    --Hamlet (1.5.167-8)

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2020, @05:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2020, @05:06AM (#959796)

      Lol, fyngyrz I get you, but he'd never get a license let alone figure out your frequencies, to drop your signal to noise the way he is here.

      But I wanted to let you know *someone* gets you, hamming it up with Hamlet. :)