Linux 4.3 Bringing Stable Intel Skylake Support, Reworked NVIDIA Driver

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 13, 2015 @05:50AM from the latest-and-greatest dept.

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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Re:removing ext3fs? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-13 07:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Nothing changes for the users, because the ext4 driver actually handles ext2/3/4, and it's the one all distributions ship.
People who have a ext3 filesystem already have it handled by the ext4 driver, almost nobody was actually using the ext3 driver that got removed.