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Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features

Posted by timothy on from the presents-from-linus-and-friends dept.

An anonymous reader writes Linux 3.18 was recently released, thus making Linux 3.19 the version under development as the year comes to a close. Linux 3.19 as the first big kernel update of 2015 is bringing in the new year with many new features: among them are AMDKFD HSA kernel driver, Intel "Skylake" graphics support, Radeon and NVIDIA driver improvements, RAID5/6 improvements for Btrfs, LZ4 compression for SquashFS, better multi-touch support, new input drivers, x86 laptop improvements, etc.

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  1. Re:systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The basic idea is good, but SystemD has implemented it poorly. FreeBSD is sitting back and taking notes of what not to do. SystemD is pioneering the idea, could have been done better, but FreeBSD will get the benefit of hindsight. FreeBSD will still manage to mess some stuff up and OpenBSD will refine it 10 years from now.

  2. Lockup issue by xluap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has the lockup issue been solved?

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...