Linux 6.11 Released

Post by dogben » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

aseipp wrote: post #70

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…

amdgpu is shit for me, my friend. Funny story: my headless server with a small Navi 1 workstation card (repurposed) couldn't be SSH'd into last week. Went and plugged in a monitor, rebooted, and the framebuffer got stuck during stage 1 while fsck'ing my disk. OK, I think to myself, it's probably taking a while to fsck after N boots, happens once every few months. Doesn't change for 48 hours. Turns out my machine had…

Post by IshKebab » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 9:38 PM UTC

meiraleal wrote: post #56

kabes wrote: post #51

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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

Post by anotherhue » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 9:42 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #57

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)

Post by badsectoracula » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

musicale wrote: post #73

leonheld wrote: post #63

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Several companies (including mine, Toradex) have setup board farms to deal with Kernel regressions and bugs during the `-rc` window, ie, the kernel that is going to be released is heavily tested. https://kernelci.org/ is a big one, Linaro has theirs https://lkft.linaro.org/ , Intel has multiple farms, Collabora works relentlessly with GitLab integration https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/patc...…

> The kernel is very much tested before a release with gigantic automated labs on real hardware. So what went wrong?

Post by nurettin » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 10:10 PM UTC

7e wrote: post #30

jmorenoamor wrote: post #14

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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.