I’m just at awe to see Torvalds still publishing the release notes for Linux kernel.
“I'm still working on it. It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down.” —Linus Torvalds
Linux 6.11 Released
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#22Does this mean i can suspend my Linux laptop to ram now?
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#236.10 (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…
What GPU?
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#24Long way since Linux 3.11 for Workgroups [0]: [0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/linux-kernel-3-11-...
Man, time flies. I remember Slashdot's thread announcing it. Linux versioning now is the worst kind of arbitrary! It's the web-browser "just iterate the number" method, but with the appearance of semantic versioning.
Linus does that on purpose, because he doesn't want people to put undue importance on any particular release.
https://lwn.net/Articles/781206/
> I'd like to point out (yet again) that we don't do feature-based releases, and that "5.0" doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes.
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it's more beneficial than whatever your parents were able to pull off
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#266.10 (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…
Is that just AMD? On my thinkpad X270 playing videos in Firefox is just a mess. All sorts of problems while Chromium is just fine. It's also fine on a copy of my system that I run on a thinkcentre tiny.
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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.
No, not at all. GPUs are the key to enabling all that. Kernels are just some glue running in there. Most of the NVIDIA goodness is actually in userspace. You could just as well say that electricity or HVAC is the key.
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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 :)
I wouldn't put the kernel on the same footing as a nuclear power plant. A power plant is designed, the Linux kernel is accreted, like a stalagmite. It's a testament to the power of open source that something useful can come out of that process. Amazing, in fact. But the newsworthiness of the kernel is overstated, in my view.