Linux 7.2

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Post by mariuz » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

Linux 7.2
igalia.com

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by hndbwksam7 » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

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Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by yipinwong » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user.

What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by tuna74 » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

I think it is mostly "marketing" for Igalia's services. If you want to pay people to do "stuff" in Linux and adjacent projects like Mesa, Igalia seems very competent.

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by sph » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

It's a well-formatted changelog of the most salient features of the release. Linus doesn't provide one apart from a list of added commits and merged branches, which isn't very useful unless you are a kernel developer.

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

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Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by NewJazz » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #5

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

It's a well-formatted changelog of the most salient features of the release. Linus doesn't provide one apart from a list of added commits and merged branches, which isn't very useful unless you are a kernel developer.

This isn't quite right.

This is a well-formatted changelog of the changes that Igalia has contributed to the release, AFAICT.

KernelNewbies publishes a much more general summary of changes (it is much longer than this one).

https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxVersions

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by mort96 » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Does anyone understand how HDMI 2.1 support is now no problem? I remember that 2.1 support in AMD's open source driver was blocked by the HDMI forum, but I haven't heard any news about them unblocking it. What changed?

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by gchamonlive » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

I don't think there is much too it, it's a consulting firm. Would you hire a consulting firm with an empty tech blog portifolio? It's ticking a box, it's stating it's a consulting firm in tech, that it's target audience are companies with Linux machines etc...

Re: Linux 7.2

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #5

yipinwong wrote: post #3

Who is the main audience for this type of content? Genuinely curious because I am not a serious Linux user. What type of info do you get out of this for those who read this? So i can glance your insight?

It's a well-formatted changelog of the most salient features of the release. Linus doesn't provide one apart from a list of added commits and merged branches, which isn't very useful unless you are a kernel developer.

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