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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
#22From a YouTube comment: > please don't hype NTSYNC. yes it has better compatibility than ESYNC and FSYNC, yes it's marginally faster in selected title. The phoronix article reports benchmarks with WINESYNC vs NTSYNC, the gains are there only if you were not already running FSYNC (on by default in most titles running under proton). > By overhyping features they ultimately end up underdelivering because people expect i…
Hype is not about better performance but about upstream support. It's valuable.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#23zdnet... now that's a familiar name I haven't seen in a while
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#24>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.
I hate to break it to you, but Linux has always had a very significant amount of development done by and for various corporate interests. There are whole companies that exist solely to commercialize Linux.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#25>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.
You think Microsoft wants Windows games to perform better on Linux?
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#26>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.
You know, Gates and Nadella wear pants, so maybe we should all go pantiless because of that, just so we don't emulate them?
I don't see how improving compatibility is a bad thing in itself, unless it breaks native functionality, which it doesn't.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#27So it's early Monday morning (well - early for me, I'm not really a morning person), and I'd love to have some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule. I'd like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things. But no. It's just pure incompetence. Because absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing…
The article helpfully informs us this note was written by the man himself, Linux Torvalds.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#28So it's early Monday morning (well - early for me, I'm not really a morning person), and I'd love to have some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule. I'd like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things. But no. It's just pure incompetence. Because absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing…
As I cross 40 years in this industry, I find that my procrastination often has subtle root causes. I assume others have the same experience.
Currently, I've been putting off a long report for a few days and it's because I'm trying to balance a number of conclusions, tones, etc. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#29>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.
You are going to be amazed when you find out how many Large Corporations contribute to FreeBSD.
What's even more amazing is how many Large Corporations use FreeBSD, but don't contribute to it.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#30So it's early Monday morning (well - early for me, I'm not really a morning person), and I'd love to have some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule. I'd like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things. But no. It's just pure incompetence. Because absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing…
> 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.
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 the important things pretty well.