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Linux 6.8 Is Announced

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Post by dirigeant » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

Re: Linux 6.8 Is Announced

Post by dirigeant » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released.

“This is not the historically big release that 6.7 was – we seem to be back to a fairly average release size for the last few year.”

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 4:56 PM UTC

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Post by Palomides » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

very curious about the intel xe drivers; weirdly, they seem like a good bet for graphics on alternative cpu architectures

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 5:55 PM UTC

> There’s also a new zswap mode to disable writing back to swap entirely.

At that point why not just use zram swap? Either way it's just "swapping" into compressed ram and never going to disk, right?