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Linux Kernel 4.7 Officially Released (iu.edu)
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: The Linux 4.7 kernel made its official debut today with Linus Torvalds announcing, "after a slight delay due to my travels, I'm back, and 4.7 is out. Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn't all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners." Linux 4.7 ships with open-source AMD Polaris (RX 480) support, Intel Kabylake graphics improvements, new ARM platform/board support, Xbox One Elite Controller support, and a variety of other new features.
Slashdot reader prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: The biggest new features of Linux kernel 4.7 are support for the recently announced Radeon RX 480 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) from AMD, which, of course, has been implemented directly into the AMDGPU video driver, a brand-new security module, called LoadPin, that makes sure the modules loaded by the kernel all originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.7 is the first one to ensure the production-ready status of the sync_file fencing mechanism used in the Android mobile operating system, allow Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) programs to attach to tracepoints, as well as to introduce the long-anticipated "schedutil" frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem, which promises to be faster and more accurate than existing ones.
Linus's announcement includes the shortlog, calling this release "fairly calm," though "There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving."
Slashdot reader prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: The biggest new features of Linux kernel 4.7 are support for the recently announced Radeon RX 480 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) from AMD, which, of course, has been implemented directly into the AMDGPU video driver, a brand-new security module, called LoadPin, that makes sure the modules loaded by the kernel all originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.7 is the first one to ensure the production-ready status of the sync_file fencing mechanism used in the Android mobile operating system, allow Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) programs to attach to tracepoints, as well as to introduce the long-anticipated "schedutil" frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem, which promises to be faster and more accurate than existing ones.
Linus's announcement includes the shortlog, calling this release "fairly calm," though "There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving."
Just gave the election to TRUMP!!! in 2016.
Good. I can't stand women with hyphenated names, anyhow. Rubs me the wrong way.
'loving' instead of 'lovin'
all these open source ididots working for free so that I can download gentoo iso for free. Even working on sundays! Idiots.
Take my wife.. Please!
...but does it support Apps yet?
11 counts of DRM.
Windows DRM or Linux DRM. hard to pick.
He's precious.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Did I read that right? I thought XBOne controllers were limited to Windows due to some DRM/TPU/Trusted computing thing.
Does that mean the linux powered Steam Box may someday have an upgrade path to support the XBOne controller?
moox. for a new generation.
Time for the Linux shills to come out of the woodwork and astroturfing their open source propaganda. I've seen this all to often here.
A bunch of selfish script kiddies demanding free stuff in the name of "openness" dreaming of a utopian society, when in fact they're simply leaches mooching off the the rest of society.
Capitalism is proven and will continue to move the world forward. Deal with it!
Is a Linux?
This is change for the sake of change.
I expect all the changes backported into 2.6 as I do not want to use a kernel designed for teenagers and throw out perfectly good working computers and learn something new all over again
http://saveie6.com/
Let's all toast the last ever version of Linux. There will never be another one and this will have a very short life indeed. Before the end of the year TTIP will be signed, and all FOSS will be banned, as "anti-competitive" and a cause of lost revenue. We don't yet know how long of an amnesty period users will have - if any - to switch to commercial products, and given the retroactivity of some of the provisions, we can expect Linux developers to be hit with heavy fines. I'd look for a job with a corporate reality in their shoes, this could protect them some way.
The Windows got to version 2000 sixteen years ago! The Linux will never catch up at this pace.
Why not just link to the actual announcement?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/24/151
Yes but can it run Crysis?