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Linux 4.17 Released (betanews.com)
Mark Wycislik-Wilson, writing for BetaNews: In his weekly message to the Linux community on Sunday, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 4.17. The release comes a couple of months after the first release candidate, and in his message Torvalds also talks about version 5.0 of the Linux kernel. Having previously said that Linux kernel v5.0 "should be meaningless," he said that this next major numerical milestone will come around "in the not too distance future." For now, though, it's version 4.17 -- or Merciless Moray, if you prefer -- that's of interest. Linux kernel 4.17 is not a major release, and Torvalds announced it without much fanfare. "So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend approached. And while I would have liked even less changes, I really didn't get the feeling that another week would help the release in any way, so here we are, with 4.17 released."
Wicca is the name, and witchcraft is the game--and the Devil is laughing his head off. It's time to examine some more Paganistic mumbo-jumbo gumbo. Into darkness we go to discover the evil force that masquerades behind the name Wicca...
Wicca witchcraft calls itself "white witchcraft". This supposedly denotes that Wiccans only do "good" witchcraft. As I see it,
the witches in Wicca have been watching too much Bewitched,
the witches in Wicca been watching too much I Dream of Jeannie,
the witches in Wicca been watching too much Sabrina the Good (or Teen) Witch, and
the witches in Wicca been watching too much Casper the Friendly Ghost.
According to the Bible, there is no such thing as a good witch.
Hence, based on the Bible, ALL witches are wicked--including Wiccans. So Christian...if unholy-wood and a bunch of confused Wiccans tell you that white witches are good, who are you going to believe? Them or the Bible? Just because
a Wiccan who believes fairy stories and legends of the Grail doesn't mean that a Wiccan is harmless or good.
Just because Wiccans gather herbs and dance naked in the moonlight doesn't mean they are good.
Just because Wiccans worship the Great Mother earth and are environmentalists doesn't mean that they are good or harmless.
We define good or bad in relation to the Bible and the Bible ALONE.
In this article, we are going to examine some Wiccan beliefs and practices. Any objective person will find that Wicca is made up of fables, vain imagination, paganism, blasphemy, lies, tales, hearsay, and a seemingly endless list of ceremonies, magick, Sabbats, etc. According to former Wiccan High Priest, Bill Schnoebelen, the serious practitioner of Wicca will find himself going to deeper depths which lead further into the worship of Lucifer aka Satan.
I personally hear from Wiccans, pagans, Satanists, Buddhists, etc.--in other words, I get just about every ingredient in the Devil's mumbo-jumbo gumbo. And each of these groups got something in common--Lucifer. And the remarkable thing is that many of these groups actually know him by "Lucifer" or some derivative. Lucifer means "Light-bearer". Lucifer is the Devil/Satan/that Old Serpent/the Dragon!. Lucifer and Satan are not two different entities. New Age people are always talking about light and spiritual guides. These deceived people are talking about the Devil and his devils! They are not talking with "Ascended Masters" they are talking with the Devil and his minions. People at the lower levels of these groups may not realize the role of Satan, but the higher ups most certainly do.
"But" some Wiccan witch may protest, "how can I worship Satan if I don't believe he exists?" If you ain't serving Jesus, you serving the devil de facto. The following link will take you to a page where your question will be further answered. Satan's hoofprints are all over Wicca. Here you will find two chapters of Wicca: Satan's Little White Lie.
The information on this treatise on Wicca is taken primarily from a book entitled, "Wicca: Satan's Little White Lie" by Bill Schnoebelen. This book will give insight into the web of confusion, lies, fables, myths, and deceit found in Wicca. Mr. Schnoebelen was--
"initiate into the Alexandrian Wicca on Imbolc, February 2, 1973 and made a High Priest and Magus in September of the
Windows is at 10! MacOS is at 10! Linux? HA!HA!
I for one welcome our 95mb-long "changelog"!
Nonaggression works!
Which turd linked it to the complete sources?
First we will be incrementing the major version every six weeks starting with linux 6.0 in August.
Then we will drop the existing module system and replace it with web extentions
We will be putting a new UI every six months
Finally will be adding ads in dmesg.
Where do you want to go today?
The sermon of Linux. Microsoft = Satan. Source code = Bible. Linus = savior. Apple = Jewish religion.
is a little bit too difficult to parse.
Here's a few human readable sources:
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linu...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan....
German: https://www.heise.de/ct/artike...
Russian: https://www.opennet.ru/opennew...
Major version changes meant a significant difference while minor changes were small changes and fixes.
Skipping numbers in version dictated the amount of change in the fix. So if I went from version 3.03 to 3.50 I know there was a lot of work done, but not enough that would break compatibility, or add significant features.
Linux for the most part has been rather consistent.
But google and Firefox with their full number upgrades, makes it more difficult to judge the complexity of the patch. We are on Firefox 60. but it is more like Firefox 7.28 or something like that. Then Microsoft decides to make no sense all together. The Intel Processors lineup is just as bad by hiding their generation of processors as secondary next to the type of processor.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the
stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend
approached.
And while I would have liked even less changes, I really didn't get
the feeling that another week would help the release in any way, so
here we are, with 4.17 released.
No, I didn't call it 5.0, even though all the git object count
numerology was in place for that. It will happen in the not _too_
distant future, and I'm told all the release scripts on kernel.org are
ready for it, but I didn't feel there was any real reason for it. I
suspect that around 4.20 - which is I run out of fingers and toes to
keep track of minor releases, and thus start getting mightily confused
- I'll switch over. That was what happened for 4.0, after all.
As for the actual changes since rc7 - the shortlog is appended - it's
mostly drivers, networking, perf tooling, and a set of nds32 fixes.
With some random other stuff thrown in. Again, the shortlog is
obviously only the last calm week, the overall changes since 4.16 are
much too big to list in that format.
The big 4.17 stuff was mentioned in the rc1 email when the merge
window closed, but I guess it's worth repeating how 4.17 is actually a
slightly smaller kernel than 4.16, thanks to the removal of a number
of effectively dead architectures (blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag,
mn10300, score, and tile). Obviously all the other changes are much
more important, but it's always nice to see spring cleaning like that.
And with this, the merge window for 4.18 is obviously open. I actually
have some travel the second week of the merge window, which is very
inconvenient for me, but I do hope that we'll get all the big stuff
merged the first week and it won't impact any release scheduling. But
we'll have to see.
Linus
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Aaron Ma (1):
Input: synaptics - add Intertouch support on X1 Carbon 6th and X280
Al Viro (2):
fix io_destroy()/aio_complete() race
Revert "fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open"
Alex Williamson (1):
Revert "vfio/type1: Improve memory pinning process for raw PFN mapping"
Alexander Duyck (1):
net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration
Alexander Shishkin (2):
stm class: Use vmalloc for the master map
intel_th: Use correct device when freeing buffers
Antoine Tenart (1):
crypto: inside-secure - do not use memset on MMIO
Ard Biesheuvel (1):
net: netsec: reduce DMA mask to 40 bits
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
perf tools: Fix perf.data format description of NRCPUS header
Arnd Bergmann (1):
IB: Revert "remove redundant INFINIBAND kconfig dependencies"
Bart Van Assche (1):
scsi: scsi_transport_srp: Fix shost to rport translation
Benjamin Tissoires (2):
Input: synaptics - add Lenovo 80 series ids to SMBus
Input: elan_i2c_smbus - fix corrupted stack
Chris Wilson (3):
drm/i915/lvds: Move acpi lid notification registration to
registration phase
drm/i915/query: Protect tainted function pointer lookup
drm/i915/query: nospec expects no mo
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will Torvalds smoke a doobie to celebrate???
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
The 4.16rc series and now hopefully 4.17 are HUGE major releases if you want to actually use AMD's APUs in the Ryzen 3 2200g and Ryzen 5 2400g.
Essentially, those AMD CPUs were worthless (when using on chip APU) until very recently with Linux if you want to run even the most basic 3D games.
You need to also use Mesa 18.2:
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa
I 1st tried Slackware in 1994 (version 1.02 iirc) & it sucked (not big range of hardware support). Then in 1999 via RedHat (still pretty shitty but got better on hardware but software was lacking). Then in 2010 while I was in Europe, I ran it on a laptop & saw it getting MUCH better in Kubuntu 10.10 (figures, a decade++ went by) but still, Windows got me back. Now, finally, in 2018 when my install media went sour for Win7 64-bit, I bit the bullet & tried the "latest/greatest" Kubuntu 18.04 plus patches & it is VERY NICE - finally!
* :)
(Good job boys - ya got me onboard, for what that says... Me, practically the "poster child" for Windows fanboy on /. !)
APK
P.S.=> FreePascal & Lazarus ROCK for Object Pascal development too (for me, this was a BIG PLUS & NECESSARY for me to want to use Linux & IS probably 1 of the biggest reasons - it is one hell of an excellent development tool for 64 applications & is JUST LIKE Delphi, my former favorite (now FreePascal is), to a tee)... apk
'make prepare' now required or else you'll probably get elfconfig.h errors.
Cross-compile x86_64 build error I haven't yet figured out...
arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized