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Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by le-mark »

7e wrote: post #9

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> but if you list the important advancements of humankind (like LLMs, drug development, basic science breakthroughs etc.)

Amusingly, free and open source kernels (including bsds) are key to enabling all of that.

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by jmorenoamor »

7e wrote: post #9

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A nuclear power plant is just a bunch of pipes and a pile of uranium.

/s

We like it because it is free, it is not a technological amazing breakthrought, but as a collaborative project it's kind of successful in time, you have to agree on that :)

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Post by xyst »

7e wrote: post #9

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Pretty bad take and calling it “a collection of drivers, some VMM, and some syscalls” is a bit reductive.

Linux kernel is built and maintained across a variety of people. To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation yet these people come together to slowly improve the kernel everybody uses either directly or indirectly. It’s also a demonstration of the greatness that humans can achieve if we work together to solve a problem(s) outside of the typical “capitalistic” motivations (ie, money)

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by mahkoh »

homebrewer wrote: post #7

6.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…

I've had a few hard crashes (system freezes completely, ssh does not work) over the last two weeks on 6.10.x kernels. I am hoping that it is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3142 (and not hardware failure) but I've been unable to capture the kernel panic if it does occur.

Never had such an issue before.

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by 0xC0ncord »

homebrewer wrote: post #7

6.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…

I too have been having AMD GPU video artifacting lately, but so far that is the only regression I've noticed in 6.10.x. I am still on 6.10.8 so I'm not sure if 6.10.10 will contain a fix for me just yet.
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