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.

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[Earthquake Retrofit]

The President of the Alliance didn't at all look like I expected. We met in a long, opulent hallway. Brenda was in trouble because of her crew moving me three hundred years into the future. "Put your eyes back in your head." She said to me when I first saw the President.

"Marion." she said flatly.

"Brenda you trouble-making trollop. Look what you've done now." But then she laughed.

"How'd you get here so fast?" Brenda replied.

"Silly girl, you invented time travel two days ago, remember? Now I ride the continuum of space and time." She took a step closer to me, hit me with a lethal smile and said, "And you must be my barbarian?"

I gave her one right back but only managed to squeak out, "Madam President."

She grabbed my arm, "Oh Brenda," she squealed, "He's adorable. Madam President indeed."

"Marion, you septuagenarian slut..." She looked like a twenty-five year old rock star to me. "...turn him loose. We gotta settle this business with the time cops."

"Relax. It's already done. I made a deal." She tried to pull me away.

"Oh yeah? What's the catch?"

"No big thing. Me and my new boyfriend here just have to go back to his time to rid the future of some evil dictator and save the Earth."

I pulled away. "Now who's the barbarian? I'm not killing anybody, even if it is Hitler. And besides, I like it here just fine. Now... whatever."

"Who said anything about killing, darling? It'll be easy. We only need to ruin his charisma. I'll just give him a bad haircut or something. And not Hitler. Apparently they tried lots of times and it didn't work for shit. No, they got some other evildoer in mind."

Brenda wasn't buying it. "What makes you think it'll work this time?"

She took my hand. "Because this handsome boy will be with me."

"What possible difference can that make? I mean look at him..."

"Beats me, ask your crazy crew. They figured all this out." She drew my hand up to her face. "Will you do it?"

I was weakening but even I know time travel is nothing but trouble. "So if not Hitler then who?"

"Oh, I don't know, darling. Some Ronald or Donald something. A game show host, whatever that is."

"Oh, him. Yeah, okay, deal. Let's go."

She squealed. "Oh you dear, sweet, willing man. But you can't go back there looking like this. You're suppose to be a sixty year old."

"So what do I do for twenty years?"

"I'll think of something." She said suggestively, waved to Brenda and dragged me off.

After a few more regenerations, many, many years and lots of romance and adventure, I got nostalgic and decided to use my tenth and final time trip to go back to the exact moment I originally left Oregon. With a big sack of money, of course.

We tried four times and failed to keep that clown from getting elected. So I always regretted that part until I finally came back for good and actually got to vote in that year's elections which he lost by one vote.