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Linux 5.6 is getting Wireguard, Linux 5.7 will be getting exfat. It's a great year for the kernel.
What is special about exfat? I see it’s a variant of FAT32 that allows for more than 4GB, and is mainly for creating USBs? Does this mean it will improve interop with Windows?
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What is special about exfat? I see it’s a variant of FAT32 that allows for more than 4GB, and is mainly for creating USBs? Does this mean it will improve interop with Windows?
One special thing about exfat is that when it gets corrupted you are screwed.
Upgraded to a system with an X570 motherboard and an RX 5700 XT graphics card... for the most part, since Kernel 5.3, every release has been more stable and mostly better performing... though having to manually download drivers a couple times from the kernel git repo has been a pain, I really appreciate the effort. ----- Rant ahead... If only the front end could button up more... Gnome's blank screen + password seems…
> As to why the switch back, I couldn't use a VM, as most of the stuff didn't yet support the ahead of LTS kernel I was using, and I needed that for hardware stability. Did you know that Windows VMs work quite well in KVM and Gnome Boxes is a nice GUI to just install and run a Windows VM? Just asking, because for me it's the first time i'm not using VMWare or Virtualbox but still have the Windows VM for the occasiona…
While announcing Linux 5.6 is relevant to HN, the particular mailing list message regards differences from a previous release candidate. Can someone please explain, in layperson's terms, what has changed from Linux 5.5 (or 5.4) to 5.6?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56...
Enjoy.
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Why is that probably? What makes it probable?
Because if you're a competent enough programmer to contribute to the Linux kernel, you're probably competent enough to get a job as a programmer.
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> most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees. That's been the case for decades, probably since just after Linus released it.
Why is that probably? What makes it probable?
Big orgs have lots of people just working on Linux full time. They start out fixing one small thing, which then needs to be updated, optimized etc etc and then things snowball.
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> As to why the switch back, I couldn't use a VM, as most of the stuff didn't yet support the ahead of LTS kernel I was using, and I needed that for hardware stability. Did you know that Windows VMs work quite well in KVM and Gnome Boxes is a nice GUI to just install and run a Windows VM? Just asking, because for me it's the first time i'm not using VMWare or Virtualbox but still have the Windows VM for the occasiona…
And when I tried to install KVM, it errored because the kernel I was using is unsupported and it didn't install, which is specifically what I pointed out... same for VirtualBox... I didn't go VMWare as I don't want to outlay the cost of VMWare Workstation.
I definitely appreciate how Linus mentioned his daughter identified him as a "social distancing champ" - many of us developers have been practising social distancing long before anyone heard of COVID-19 ;-)
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> in my free time Thank you! To make it even more rewarding for you :) - I remember there was a report mentioning that most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees.
> most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees. That's been the case for decades, probably since just after Linus released it.
But even if: is every LOC to be seen as equal contribution?