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Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by ahartmetz »

echoangle wrote: post #61
dagw wrote: post #58

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"f#ck off, it's free" is possibly an acceptable response if you're also working for free. If maintaining that free software is your job that you are getting paid good money to do, you really should hold yourself to higher standards.

Hm, depends on who is paying you, I think. If some philanthropist is paying you to make good free software, yes. But if you’re paid by stakeholders that want your maintenance to make sure they can use the free software themselves, you’re only really accountable to their opinions.

It is really closer to the latter (Linux Foundation = the megacorporations LUG), but Linus seems to treat it as the former - in a good way.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by wtallis »

diggan wrote: post #98

> Below is the shortlog for the last week. It's nice and small - not only was there no last-minute issue yesterday, the whole last week was pretty calm. The patch is dominated by some amd gpu updates, and even those are pretty small. The rest is random small changes all over. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg7TO09Si5tTPyhdrLLvyYtVm... Funny that Linus himself doesn't consider much in the release noteworthy beside…

What you're quoting Linus on is his commentary about the patches landing in the past week, which is supposed to be only bug fixes as the code stabilizes enough for a stable release to be made. New features would lane weeks earlier during the merge window. What's newsworthy here is not anything that was merged recently, just the fact that this new functionality is now available from a stable release.

If there was anything really significant from the past week's changelog, it would likely have been reason to delay the stable release for at least another week.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by no-js-user »

andy_xor_andrew wrote: post #20

I'm super excited for this! But it makes me curious. What's the process like for getting such a low-level primitive added to Linux? Especially a low-level primitive that 1) exist basically just to emulate behavior of a completely different kernel, and 2) is only needed for a subset of users to play games? I'm not complaining, just curious. I would assume a patch to add the above would be heavily scrutinized. Is it be…

You've got a nice arc river in "of / getting / to".

Easier to find if you look slightly away from that part of the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by senectus1 »

maccard wrote: post #42
jchw wrote: post #30

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You know, though, his conduct nowadays isn't really that bad; I don't think I'd be bothered by it in a workplace environment. He makes strong assertions, but not mean-spirited, and I think Linus has a lot of reasons to feel highly confident when he makes strong assertions when it comes to Linux. Of course, there are some moments, but almost everybody has their moments. When push comes to shove, Linus seems to handle…

> I don’t think I’d be bothered by it in a workplace environment https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/23/351 This was a month ago. I wouldn’t stand for this in a company I worked for.

completely 100% disagree with this.

Businesses are better and more efficient places with blunt honesty.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by WD-42 »

knowitnone wrote: post #100
WD-42 wrote: post #29

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What's even more amazing is how many Large Corporations use FreeBSD, but don't contribute to it.

What's even more amazing is you expect Large Corporations to contribute when they the license just allows the to use it for nothing.

Exactly right.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by NekkoDroid »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #105

If you’re wondering about hard numbers, the benefits for Wine look massive. From Jan 2024: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux

Do note that these numbers are Upstream vanilla Wine vs Wine+NTSYNC and not Wine+fsync, which is more common and has comparable performance (if not sometimes better[0] according to a valve employee)

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/plagman.bsky.social/post/3lkp26xmco...

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by jchw »

maccard wrote: post #107
jchw wrote: post #89

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Could certainly be less confrontational, but in this case, it doesn't really feel so unwarranted, in large part because coming from Linus regarding the Rust for Linux project, a stronger expression of frustration feels justifiable. It's a lot different than the real-life "toxic" communication I've witnessed, where the harshness is strictly one-sided and feels unjustifiable. But I guess the line will be up to taste. I…

I disagree - the harshness here is personal insults and passive-aggressiveness. That's uncalled for and definitely "toxic". It's very possible to be assertive and shut down unconstructive discussions, as Linus has repeatedly shown. Here [0] is a great example of Linus being firm, assertive, calling someone out on their shit. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066

I really regret the proliferation of terms like "toxic" to describe things as benign as this. I think it's literally recoloring people's perception of what bad communication actually looks like.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by karunamurti »

znpy wrote: post #101
cube00 wrote: post #17

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> But no. It's just pure incompetence. While I don't agree with how he conducts himself on the mailing lists; I respect he uses the same language when talking about himself.

The guys is truly a beacon of fairness. Linux as a kernel will probably go downhill after we lose Linus. And I'm only 50% ironic/joking.

Yeah, GKH doesn't have the insult power of Linus. Can some Finnish people teach GKH on how to insult? I learned the word perkeleen vittupää from LKML.

Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility

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Post by TheCleric »

jmclnx wrote: post #7

>This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives To me, anything that emulates windows primitives is a bad thing. Again these changes being pushed by Microsoft make me glad the BSDs exist. Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.

> Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.

I have some bad news for you on what MacOS and iOS are originally based on.

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