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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. System Hardware. Or yum install hardinfo by raymorris · · Score: 3, Informative

    The kernel and friends manage hotplug devices quite nicely.
    I take that to mean you want a clickity-click GUI, so you can see what the system has already detected and handled properly for you, and do things without needing to understand what you're doing. If that's what you're looking for, hardinfo is a well-known option. Your choice of graphical desktop environment probably has one it provides by default as well. Look under "System" or similar.

  2. Re:systemd? by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Linux kernel is depricated[sic] - systemd will take over its functionality.

    +1 hilarious.

    --
    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  3. Lockup issue by xluap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has the lockup issue been solved?

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