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Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by kabes »

fallingsquirrel wrote: post #24
unethical_ban wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then just an ever increasing number like most browser do these days would make more sense.

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by OvbiousError »

mahkoh wrote: post #16
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.

Wow thanks for that link. I've had my machine crashing a couple of times as well the last couple of weeks, was absolutely stable before. I hope it's this and not hardware failure.

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by ajcp »

xyst wrote: post #12

I’m just at awe to see Torvalds still publishing the release notes for Linux kernel.

Not only release notes, he's still actively contributing! From said release notes:

> Linus Torvalds (2):

> mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case

> Linux 6.11

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by meiraleal »

kabes wrote: post #51
fallingsquirrel wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then just an ever increasing number like most browser do these days would make more sense.

What about he just continue doing what he is doing? We are talking about the most succesful open source project here

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by gigatexal »

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…

6.10 broke my fedora gaming proton box and I was on holiday at the time and so upset I just nuked it and put windows on it to play games. Now it's only powered on on the weekends to play games and I've moved all my linux needs to a VM on my overspecc'd Mac.

I also had an AMDGPU system. 5600X, AMD 6800 GPU, Fedora 40. -> now win11 (which has so much cruft out of the box I am considering nuking it and going back haha)

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by zh3 »

quibuss wrote: post #42
johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #22

Does this mean i can suspend my Linux laptop to ram now?

Yes, very happy Thinkpad P14s user here on EndeavourOS.

Always worked for me on Thinkpads (T41/T61/T420/T520). T420 reports a somewhat optimistic "122 hours remaining" when coming out of sleep with a fully charged battery though.

Re: Linux 6.11 Released

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Post by saagarjha »

7e wrote: post #27
le-mark wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> kernels

And what exactly do you think your GPU is running? Checkmate atheists

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