Linux 5.0 Released (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.0 in kicking off the kernel's 28th year of development. Linux 5.0 features include AMD FreeSync support, open-source NVIDIA Turing GPU support, Intel Icelake graphics, Intel VT-d scalable mode, NXP PowerPC processors are now mitigated for Spectre Variant Two, and countless other additions. eWeek adds: Among the new features that have landed in Linux 5.0 is support for the Adiantum encryption system, developed by Google for low power devices. Google's Android mobile operating system and ChromeOS desktop operating system both rely on the Linux kernel. "Storage encryption protects your data if your phone falls into someone else's hands," Paul Crowley and Eric Biggers, Android Security and Privacy Team at Google wrote in a blog post. "Adiantum is an innovation in cryptography designed to make storage encryption more efficient for devices without cryptographic acceleration, to ensure that all devices can be encrypted. Memory management in Linux also gets a boost in the 5.0 kernel with a series of improvements designed to help prevent memory fragmentation, which can reduce performance.

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Re:Is this going to require a reboot?

[jellomizer]

Also for a sanity check on your hardware. I never experience this with a Linux box, but on specialized Sun Hardware back in the early 2000's. Back then Uptime was a big deal, because system crashes were common. Linux at the time, you can get about a year of uptime, Windows NT perhaps 3 months max. However Sun Hardware can keep running for many years. However being that most of the time server hardware was used for specialized tasks, that most of the storage requirements were cached in RAM (Which back in the day have 1 or 2 gigs of RAM, was enough for nearly anything). So the Service will work and run constantly, even after the drive failed, because everything was running in RAM (and your logging went to an other drive). Only to have a long time power outage affect your years uptime, with a server that wouldn't start back up, because the boot and OS drive had failed years ago.