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Linux Kernel 4.10 Officially Released With Virtual GPU Support (softpedia.com)
"Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the Linux 4.10 kernel series, which add a great number of improvements, new security features, and support for the newest hardware components," writes Softpedia. prisoninmate quotes their report:
Linux kernel 4.10 has been in development for the past seven weeks, during which it received a total of seven Release Candidate snapshots that implemented all the changes that you'll soon be able to enjoy on your favorite Linux-based operating system... Prominent new features include virtual GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) support, new "perf c2c" tool that can be used for analysis of cacheline contention on NUMA systems, support for the L2/L3 caches of Intel processors (Intel Cache Allocation Technology), eBPF hooks for cgroups, hybrid block polling, and better writeback management. A new "perf sched timehist" feature has been added in Linux kernel 4.10 to provide detailed history of task scheduling, and there's experimental writeback cache and FAILFAST support for MD RAID5... Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) could be the first stable OS to ship with Linux 4.10.
It required 13,000 commits, plus over 1,200 merges, Linus wrote in the announcement, adding "On the whole, 4.10 didn't end up as small as it initially looked."
It required 13,000 commits, plus over 1,200 merges, Linus wrote in the announcement, adding "On the whole, 4.10 didn't end up as small as it initially looked."
...that we'll finally get a Nouveau driver that isn't a crash-prone piece of crap?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Well, even the newest kernels (I can vouch for 4.9.x at least) have no systemd requirement. I run that and am still happily systemd-free.
The bigger question I have is re. virtual GPU: would it finally be possible to use Wayland in a QEMU-based VM? It would be nice to get see how that works--but still I wait for Wayland to have some ability to work across networks.
But Linux runs Chrome and it will catch up for it.
Looks like you can get near-native performance even though you're sharing hardware. With this maybe instead of a dual boot PC you can have a dual VM PC, one runs Linux and the other Windows and both at near native performance and you don't have to dedicate a graphics card. That sounds like a real gateway drug, use Linux for the desktop and the games that run on it but be able to switch to your Wintendo and play that one must-have game your friends want. That said right now it looks like an an Intel tech, did anyone see anything about AMD/nVidia support? Because sharing that Intel iGPU wasn't really what I'm looking for....
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I'm running 4.9.9. No systemd. The problem is your distro.
Running 4.9 on 4 physical machines in my home. And also running 4.9 on over a dozen VMs in a datacenter without systemd.
There are a few distributions that don't push it down your throat. There are even a few others that offer (optional) alternative kernels and init systems.
Personally I use funtoo.
Take a look at www.without-systemd.org for more.
Can someone link to a concise discussion of what this does and some use cases? Thanks.
run Windows CAD packages under Wine and have the graphics work properly? I've been looking/waiting for a decent CAD package for Linux for years. The closest thing to good CAD that I've seen for Linux is OnShape's cloud based package that runs in a web browser.
SystemD is in userspace. There are no dependencies for SystemD in the kernel.
Now I hate SystemD far more than most due to it causing actual failures for me in production, but spreading disinformation about it is dishonest.
Well, now we are on Windows version 10. At this rate we'll be eventually at Windows version . 000...0001
It seems that is the only kernel everyone and their brother uses these days and no SystemD dependencies seems to be a big factor
May I ask what has systemd to do with a new Linux kernel version or the kernel in general.?
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
I'm running 4.9.9. No systemd. The problem is your distro.
That is funny I am running 4.9.9-200.fc25.x86_64 (Fedora 25 for those that don't know) and I have never had an issue with systemd in over six years.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
However you do not need SystemD to run those kernels which seems to be what you and the other poster are implying.
SystemD is Lennart's special little empire building project and separate to the kernel.
That's just retarded. Google's mobile empire is built on the Linux kernel, and even MS has Linux offerings these days.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
No, but it would help you run Windows CAD packages inside a Windows VM and get near native GPU performance both in the Windows VM and Linux host. vGPU lets you share a single compatible GPU across multiple VMs running on the same system. This way each VM can benefit from full hardware accelerated 3D rendering as well as access to OpenCL and/or CUDA even though only a single physical GPU is present in the system.
Wine wouldn't benefit because it already has direct access to the GPU as long as it's associated with the host system, it's issues are caused by imperfect compatibility between how Windows does something, and how WINE implemented it. For example, Wine translates Direct3D calls into OpenGL calls which can then be run natively in Linux, but if the translation isn't perfect, or a certain Direct3D call hasn't been implemented in WINE yet, then the program is going to behave differently than it should.
no SystemD dependencies
The linux kernel has zero dependencies on Systemd. It provides support for cgroups that systemd then implements on the desktop but adoption is entirely up to the distribution.
And it's a good thing which is why so many distributions have adopted systemd in the first place.
WTF?? More revisionist history. The republicans are the party that supported the civil rights act. http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/...
OK.. so I am not sure why, but it is.
See, at work people always get praise for "going the extra mile", working overtime to get the job done. The people who rarely get the accolades are the ones who work effectively and efficiently at just doing the work. They don't get "recognition awards" for getting things done on schedule. That's just their job. But the downside is that to prove your worth, it is in your best interest to create a little chaos so you can step up and put out the fires.
Kudos to Linus and the kernel maintainers for continuing to do what they do.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Run them under vmware instead. Their graphics driver is pretty good. It's good enough to where you can actually play many games on it, let alone use CAD. Of course, then you actually need a copy of Windows in a VM, which you may find offensive.
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Good for you. That wasn't the gp's question.
How about native ZFS support?
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
The problem is all of the mainstream distributions have made systemd a requirement.
So some users are opting to stick with older releases to avoid systemd, and that means losing out on new kernel features.
As I mentioned in my other comment, some distributions do not require systemd, and still offer modern kernels.
Lets clarify.. Republicans - Ended slavery, Democrats opposed to the point of a shooting war. Republicans - Pushed Civil Rights, Democrats (specifically their honored KKK member like Robert Byrd with the help of Al Gore) opposed Republicans - Pushed for women to vote, Democrats opposed.
Almost all true.
Civil Rights legislation was pushed by Northern Democrats. Northern Republicans simply rode the wave after balking for a decade.
You could argue the Dems stole their win on that one, but it's also important to understand that the Democratic party was split into 2 very separate parties at that point in time, more or less, along the mason-dixon line.
Again, the bigotry espoused by the Democratic party, which absolutely cannot be denied, was a north/south issue, not a democrat/republican issue.
More Democrats voted for Civil Rights than Republicans. A larger percentage of Republicans voted for Civil Rights than Democrats. This is because the Democratic party was split north/south, but still had a commanding majority in the north, where the Republicans had zero presence in the south.
The only pattern I see is your willful ignorance to the nuances of the actual demographic split and attempt at turning political parties into your favorite sports team.
So mainstream distributions made a decision on merit, open source provided alternatives for those who don't want, and this is now somehow a problem. Got it. Don't understand it, but got it.
Great! I'll give it a try in VMware when the new kernel is released. I have attempted to run CAD in VMware before and failed miserably with the graphics. I don't mind loading a VM with Windows if that's what it takes, I just don't want to be stuck with Windows as my main OS simply because I need it to run CAD.
For many distros, once you find the documentation of their prefered way to package and install the kernel, it is almost trivial to build a new kernel.
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DNC split into 2 parties, as you said, and 51 of the 54 that split went back to the DNC for life and were welcomed.
That's not really relevant, but it is true. It's not relevant, because it says nothing about the voters and the fact that Republicans came to take up the positions those Democrats held. Today's Republican platform is the Dixiecrat platform of the 60s, in terms of social policy.
Again, I ask you, did the south magically go from 100% blue in 1964 to almost 100% red today because the voters all had a change of heart? Or did the parties change to reflect the voters?
Nothern Democrats came to dominate National Democratic party politics, and the Republicans were failing against the Democrats in the North. The Republicans had to take on the southern voters if they wanted to stay relevant, just as the Democrats required them before they came to dominate the North. The shift is obvious. Education didn't fail me, but logic fails you.