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Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance (lkml.org)

Posted by timothy on from the positive-externalities-galore dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.3 kernel was released as stable today. The Linux 4.3 kernel brings Intel Skylake support, reworked NVIDIA open-source graphics support, and many other changes with the code count hitting 20.6 million lines of code.

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  1. Re:How much of it do I have to trust? by zenlessyank · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have 11 choices. You can either 'Learn' the code, or you can 'Trust' the code, and lastly you can 'Not Use' the code.

  2. Re:How much of it do I have to trust? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, don't forget the microcode on the chip. Or, rather, do forget it. "They" insist.

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  3. Re:SMP improvements? by eutychus · · Score: 5, Informative

    "and the performance testing results are encouraging. Nevertheless we need to keep
    an eye on potential regressions, since this potentially affects every SMP workload
    in existence."

    http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1508.3/04818.html

  4. Re:How much of it do I have to trust? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    dude, you missed like 8 choices

    there are 10 kinds of people: people that understand binary and people who don't.

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