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Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the bleeding-edge-is-the-leading-edge dept.

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.

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  1. Re: But of course the distributions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Ubuntu already doesn't allow installing Chrome since the repo uses SHA1.

  2. Re:OrangeFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From a glance at their website, I think the keyword is MPI-IO. Picture a weather simulation consisting of 10,000 processes that work together in parallel, where all of them perform semirandom input/output using the same files. That's gonna be difficult to do right with conventional filesystems...

  3. Re:when is it going to be different? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a GTX 660. I have it because the folks who built my system for me included it as part of a package that had everything else I wanted. I was a bit leery of it at first, but went with it after finding that it was listed as supported by Nouveau, and that Nvidia provided its own Linux drivers as well. Nouveau sucked: it did not support a number of features that it claimed to, and was flaky as hell. Got tired of of my desktop vanishing without a trace, so I decided to try the Nvidia drivers, which worked a treat. Sometime later, after a number of successful driver updates, I hit one that didn't go so well. Filed a bug with Nvidia, and found their tech support folks to be extremely polite, knowledgeable, and helpful--and they actually took the time to explain a few things to me.

    I prefer to use FOSS software. But I also prefer to use a computer that works.

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  4. Re:OrangeFS by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Informative

    OrangeFS is a derivative of the parallel FS originally used for Beuwolf clusters.

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