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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.
will never allow us to have this upgrade since they're Republican-ruled and hate progress.
Developers provided performance charts against AppleFS in the release notes, but they found it wasn't comparing the same thing.
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If so, I'll never use it.
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!
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.
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.
Fifty years of Yippie! 1968-2018
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?
Is that a good thing?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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...
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.
When will SystemD deprecate the Linux Kernel? When would this happen? This year?