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Linus Torvalds Officially Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 (softpedia.com)
Slashdot reader prisoninmate brings news from Softpedia:
Today, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release and availability for download of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one. Linux kernel 4.8 has been in development for the past two months, during which it received no less than eight Release Candidate testing versions that early adopters were able to compile and install on their GNU/Linux operating system to test various hardware components or simply report bugs...
A lot of things have been fixed since last week's RC8 milestone, among which we can mention lots of updated drivers, in particular for GPU, networking, and Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module (NVDIMM), a bunch of improvements to the ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 hardware architectures, updates to the networking stack, as well as to a few filesystem, and some minor changes to cgroup and vm.
The kernel now supports the Raspberry Pi 3 SoC as well as the Microsoft Surface 3 touchscreen.
A lot of things have been fixed since last week's RC8 milestone, among which we can mention lots of updated drivers, in particular for GPU, networking, and Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module (NVDIMM), a bunch of improvements to the ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 hardware architectures, updates to the networking stack, as well as to a few filesystem, and some minor changes to cgroup and vm.
The kernel now supports the Raspberry Pi 3 SoC as well as the Microsoft Surface 3 touchscreen.
Years ago when I first started reading slashdot, a story about Linux kernel release (even though they often weren't all that interesting) generated interesting discussions. I see just 2 comments here so far that are not stupid. The rest are bad attempts at trolling, or for some reason using the story to talk about systemd, or very bad attempts at humour (humour is better than the rest of the shit though... I like humour if it's actually funny). It seems that the real nerds have abandoned slashdot entirely :(
On something as complicated as an OS, there will be bugs that are workload or hardware dependent and won't show up until the wider pool of people start testing it and that, as it turns out, is when RC1 gets released. .
Or alternatively, there is a lack of understanding of the Linux kernel development process.
yaaawwnnnnn......
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