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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.
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I'm still using 2.6.32-642.4.2 and it works eminently well for me. Plus, no systemd.
No need to stay at old kernels to get the benefit of no systemd.
# uname -a
Linux hastur 4.4.21-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Sep 29 15:31:21 EDT 2016 x86_64 Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# ps -fp 1
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Sep29 ? 00:00:02 init [3]
The announcement was made from a balcony somewhere in Finland. We expect the video anytime now.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
arth's point was that the kernel, new or old, doesn't require systemd.
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. .
systemd is a pile of horse shit that was thrown into a fan so it sprayed everywhere, touched everything and contaminated what it touched.
sysvinit is a pile of cow shit, in a field somewhere, touching only the ground it rests on. Don't go to that field and step in that pile and it won't bother you.
If there are bugs in sysvinit, they affect sysvinit. If there are bugs in systemd, its everyone else's fault and everyone else should re-write their software to handle the bugs in systemd because the systemd developers are way too important to waste their incredible talent fixing their own bugs.
yaaawwnnnnn......
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