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Linux 4.2-rc1 Is One of the Largest Kernel Releases of Recent Times

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds ended the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window today by releasing Linux 4.2-rc1. He quickly wrote, "I thought this release would be one of the biggest ones ever, but it turns out that it will depend on how you count." By most metrics, Linux 4.2 is shaping up to be a very large release. Linux 4.2 is bringing plenty of new features including the new 'AMDGPU' kernel graphics driver, Intel Broxton support, NCQ TRIM improvements, F2FS file-system encryption, new ARM CPU/board support, Renesas R8/300 arch support, and many other additions.

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  1. kdbus, where are you? by eyepeepackets · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Still no kdbus, oy vey Jose. So what's it gonna take, three pretty, prancing blondes wearing sandwich boards and high heels marching in lock step in front of the White House? What do the sandwich boards say, you ask?

    "The twenty-second century is screaming down the pipe and we've no KDBUS!"

    "Hurry the fuck up with the KDBUS already!"

    "Yo mamma needs her KDBUS too!"

    --
    Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
  2. Re: Systemd by buchanmilne · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Systemd is causing massive bloat in Linux."

    One of the main objectives of systemd is to take advantage of linux-specific features (such as cgroups) that existed before systemd did.

    The servers I am building at present have a minimum of 256GB ram, I couldn't care about a few MB of "bloat", what I *do* care about is resource limits at various levels, which cgroups gives me and systemd makes useable but default.

    if you were trolling, you're the worst systemd troll I've seen this year.