Linux 4.3 Bringing Stable Intel Skylake Support, Reworked NVIDIA Driver

An anonymous reader writes: Mr. Torvalds has released Linux 4.3-rc1 this weekend. He characterized the release as "not particularly small — pretty average in size, in fact. Everything looks fairly normal, in fact, with about 70% of the changes being drivers, 10% architecture updates, and the remaining 20% are spread out." There are a number of new user-facing features including stabilized Intel "Skylake" processor support, initial AMD R9 Fury graphics support, SMP scheduler optimizations, file-system fixes, a reworked open-source NVIDIA driver, and many Linux hardware driver updates.

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SystemD kernel already supports

[Billly Gates]

Guess I can run Linux on top of emacs on top of SystemD. Now only if it had a decent text editor for my php running as root to handle text strings as input for my mission critical nosql database for Wall Street

Laptops, anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Once again, new junk is added, without the old stuff having gone through QA first. For example, I wish the problems with laptop support were fixed: suspend/hibernate is unreliable, brightness control is often flaky, graphics switching does not work out of the box, and so on.