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Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.6-rc1 kernel has been released. New to the Linux 4.6 kernel are a significant number of new features including NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 open-source 3D support when using the closed-source firmware files, Dell XPS 13 Skylake laptop support, a fix for laptops that were limiting their own performance due to incorrectly thinking they were overheating, AHCI runtime power management support, Intel graphics power management features enabled by default, a new file-system (OrangeFS), and a range of other improvements.
Ubuntu already doesn't allow installing Chrome since the repo uses SHA1.
Debian bug #1558331 proves that. They claim MongoDB and Chrome are tools of the repukianz so they don't allow us to install them.
Wow, this shows the hatred of Debian contributors:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1558331?comments=all
They hate us and don't want to allow us to use the software we need.
Developers provided performance charts against AppleFS in the release notes, but they found it wasn't comparing the same thing.
U should use Chrimium instead of that chrome shit
thankyou for reading at -1
This, but too many Microsoft fanbois love Chrome
I'm glad Ubuntu 16.04 blocks third-party software. That is good for open source.
I need to run MongoDB. So you support Ubuntu's screwing over of my employer?
Seriously, there seems to be an obsession in parts of the Linux community to make yet another thing that already does what a bunch of existing software does. I'm not sure why but you see a lot of it. You'll get a distro that'll have 8 different media players, none of them worth a damn, rather than just having one good one but hey, you have options!
Yes. Third party repos shouldn't be allowed.
You don't need either! Use Chromium and a better database.
Exactly. Iceweasel is better.
SHA1 is broken so Ubuntu is correct in suddenly disallowing it without warning.
Stop it samefag
This, and Microsoft loves SHA1.
Runs better than the mess that is Firefox. How long until we have systemd run Firefox?
I have a couple of friends on the Chrome team. They claim Ubuntu gave them no warning before blocking Chrome.
This. Third party repos aren't typically free enough. I'm glad Ubuntu is now blocking the.
I need MongoDB. So you really support Ubuntu's blocking of it?
They should have made it a warning before just blocking them!
If the software isn't free then you shouldn't be using it in the first place! Ubuntu is on the right side of this issue.
I'm glad that Ubuntu now doesn't allow you to install Chrome.
Why was this voted down? It included a link to the discussion of exactly why we aren't allowed to install why we want to install.
Sad to see Ubuntu's arrogance on this. Anyone have a workaround? I've got nearly three dozen developers blocked by this!
WTF. You post an actual bug number and the moderators here mark you as a troll!
This is a blocking issue for Ubuntu and Debian unstable. It is a serious problem.
This. I'm saddened by the people that think they have the right to decide what software they install.
This. The vast majority of users are not qualified to make the decision on whether or not soenthing is really open source.
Ubuntu already doesn't allow installing Chrome since the repo uses SHA1.
Their bug on this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1558331
It's interesting that they decided to not provide a workaround.
Agreed. End users don't know enough to decide.
I'm glad Ubuntu 16.04 blocks third-party software. That is good for open source.
But bad for people that need to get work done. My developers need MongoDB and Google Chrome, but 16.04 has a policy that blocks them from installing either.
But neither are free enough. You should choose other options.
Agreed. Ubuntu is doing the right thing by not allowing third-party software.
I agree. The average user is not qualified to make that decision. Ubuntu is correct in taking that decision away from the hands of lusers.
You are bearing the consequences if your actions.
Any workaround would be anti-open source.
This
open-source 3D support when using the closed-source firmware files
This is what they've been saying about both AMD and NVIDIA since there was a linux and an AMD and an NVIDIA. They all say "open-source xxx with binary". So what, they are drawing the line somewhere else? Are we supposed to give a shit? When is it going to be open source? When are they going to stop acting like ANYTHING "... with binary" is fucking bullshit?
Chrome isn't free so this is a good thing.
So much for freedom of choice.
Is that a good thing?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I take comfort that Trump has already won, even in the fever dreams of those who support his opponents.
And to GP: systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I find this claim dubious: no serious operation would use Ubuntu let alone MongoDB. I suspect you're jobless and live in your parents basement.
There could be another reason for this. Do you recall how Creative Labs became very obstructive regarding design information for the X-Fi range of sound cards, to the extent that they would not release even basic info to the GNU/Linux driver community? The reason is because Microsoft sponsors them to write drivers for Windows. Just as Microsoft paid games companies to use DirectX over OpenGL. So there is a high probability that nVidia are taking the Microsoft coin and in return the deal prohibits them from providing full open source to the FOSS community...
Cool troll. Frosty, even.
Ubuntu is such an unfortunate name. They could have easily picked something slicker like Performix, or Blobbix.
That seems like a crazy waste of energy. If you want to predict the weather approximately as accurately as the local news, just roll a d20 and look the results up in your DM manual.
But this only works correctly, if you don't use the cheap molded/ground dice, but get some machined ones.
Hollow machined dice, filled with the blood of a weatherman.
Having fun talking to yourself?
No, you have it the wrong way around: How long till FirefoxOS runs systemd? TIFIFY
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I'm seeing more comments here downmodded to -1 than I'm seeing with the default mod or an upmod. It's not the discussion that's bad, it's the modding.
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the eldest man shall proclaim that the sweltering steam room in tandem with his thirsty terry towel is
hot enough to melt a brass monkey's testicles and that to the good of all the towels should be hurled to
the floor. Once the towels are removed, the second eldest shall make a taunting jape to the youngest
about the now-exposed terrain of his body, either about his weak-muscled torso or the fact that he
has a cocktail frank for a weenie.
Then, whilst the others giggle, the teased one should affect great offense and romp in pursuit of his
offender, and he shall endeavour to place nail imprints by pinching at the shoulder blades of this
offender. The others, including the chased, shall giggle uncontrollably at the failure or success of
the pincher, and as they run so shall their whangies bob whappingly up and down, until the vertical motion
causes stimulation and they find only their balls are bobbing, for their pee-pee proper is protruding in
a great rigid slab outward and in a state not unlike rigormortis and so is not of the soft composition of
things bounceable. Soon distraction and pleasurable sensation make the taunted party abandon all
remembrance of his haranguing and a jolly game of tag is played. The person who is "it" must
use his weenie to poke another between the gluteus cheeks, whereupon he will become "it," The game is
played until everyone is both jubilant and exhausted, and goes home to a dish of his wife's fine cooking.
It came out in 2004, when the rage in the post-dot-bomb rise-of-Google era was for cutesy non-technical-sounding names. All the better if they're multicultural obscure ethnic names. So in the early 1990s it would be something like Innovex or Cyberware, in the 2000s something like Snoople or Groozle or Poople... "Crapware" rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
I don't quite get how inventing time travel is off topic for a technology site. Well... actually I was hoping for +5 off topic, but the AC's comment has shown me the error of my way. I apologize. Sex is inappropriate,.. got it.
I swear, this time travel business is nothing but trouble.
Fifty years of Yippie! 1968-2018
If you "need" MongoDB or Chrome, you're doing it wrong.
The referenced bug was about Ubuntu and Google package archives using SHA-1 still and throwing warning or errors, about fixing it, and some analysis of the impact. There was one ignored post by someone complaining (the original AC?) that referred to the hate between Ubuntu and Google. Nevermind that this is a security issue Debian addressed (weak, deprecated hashing algorithms in the package installation), and both Google and Ubuntu were slow to clean up their end, so the warnings started to be thrown. Debian, as it should, doesn't weaken security or keep bugs around on behalf of some third-party non-opensource software archive beyond its control. Its a choice you make (no one stopped you), and sometimes it breaks. At least try to complain to the right people, as the bug did - it was filed at Ubuntu.
No idea where the repukians or MongoDB claims originated, and not looking further in response to troll.
When will SystemD deprecate the Linux Kernel? When would this happen? This year?
The third parties just need to update their repos to meet the new requirements (and they will). Unstable breaks. It's not a serious problem. Everything will be fine.
How can they stop you from using it?