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Linux 4.18 Releases With Steam Controller Kernel Driver, Spectre Updates (phoronix.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

fstack writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.18 as the newest kernel bringing a Steam Controller kernel driver, Spectre updates for ARM64, power management updates, a "Restartable Services" system call, AMD Radeon graphics driver improvements, V3D DRM as Broadcom's new graphics driver, DM writecache support, USB 3.2 support, and many other updates. Linus Torvalds wrote of the 4.18 final release: "It was a very calm week, and arguably I could just have released on schedule last week, but we did have some minor updates. Mostly networking, but some vfs race fixes (mentioned in the rc8 announcement as 'pending') and a couple of driver fixes (scsi, networking, i2c). Some other minor random things (arm crypto fix, parisc memory ordering fix)." In a separate article, Phoronix details all the changes and new features available in this release.

5 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Linus the legend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a guy. Should win a Nobel prize. Best buy in tech ever.

    1. Re:Linus the legend by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

      In 2012 Linus received the Millennium prize, which is kind of like the Nobel prize for technology (the Nobels are more about fundamental science). https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

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  2. Spectre update by manu0601 · · Score: 2

    Get used to it: we are going to get Spectre updates for years. That one will never be completely patched in software.

  3. For anyone else wondering by Trogre · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Steam Controller, is a hand controller for playing Steam games.

    It is not, disappointingly, a gadget for controlling steam engines.

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  4. Re:Systemd by The+Cynical+Critic · · Score: 2

    The annoying part about SystemD is that like PulseAudio, a previous Pottering project known to be a buggy mess (at least until some more competent management came in and fixed it), it's a genuinely needed replacement for something aging and badly outdated.

    Unfortunately people are too aware of the pitfalls of NIH syndrome so you're not going to be able to get enough members of the open source community to create a competently done init replacement to replace an incompetently done one that still (somewhat) works.

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