Linux 6.13 Released (phoronix.com) 12
"Nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week," Linux Torvalds posted tonight on the Linux kernel mailing list, "so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release."
Phoronix says the release has "plenty of fine features": Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for benefiting multi-CCD Ryzen X3D processors. The new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors will now default to AMD P-State rather than ACPI CPUFreq for better power efficiency....
Linux 6.13 also brings more Rust programming language infrastructure and more.
Phoronix notes that Linux 6.13 also brings "the start of Intel Xe3 graphics bring-up, support for many older (pre-M1) Apple devices like numerous iPads and iPhones, NVMe 2.1 specification support, and AutoFDO and Propeller optimization support when compiling the Linux kernel with the LLVM Clang compiler."
And some lucky Linux kernel developers will also be getting a guitar pedal soldered by Linus Torvalds himself, thanks to a generous offer he announced a week ago: For _me_ a traditional holiday activity tends to be a LEGO build or two, since that's often part of the presents... But in addition to the LEGO builds, this year I also ended up doing a number of guitar pedal kit builds ("LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron"). Not because I play guitar, but because I enjoy the tinkering, and the guitar pedals actually do something and are the right kind of "not very complex, but not some 5-minute 555 LED blinking thing"...
[S]ince I don't actually have any _use_ for the resulting pedals (I've already foisted off a few only unsuspecting victims^Hfriends), I decided that I'm going to see if some hapless kernel developer would want one.... as an admittedly pretty weak excuse to keep buying and building kits...
"It may be worth noting that while I've had good success so far, I'm a software person with a soldering iron. You have been warned... [Y]ou should set your expectations along the lines of 'quality kit built by a SW person who doesn't know one end of a guitar from the other.'"
Phoronix says the release has "plenty of fine features": Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for benefiting multi-CCD Ryzen X3D processors. The new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors will now default to AMD P-State rather than ACPI CPUFreq for better power efficiency....
Linux 6.13 also brings more Rust programming language infrastructure and more.
Phoronix notes that Linux 6.13 also brings "the start of Intel Xe3 graphics bring-up, support for many older (pre-M1) Apple devices like numerous iPads and iPhones, NVMe 2.1 specification support, and AutoFDO and Propeller optimization support when compiling the Linux kernel with the LLVM Clang compiler."
And some lucky Linux kernel developers will also be getting a guitar pedal soldered by Linus Torvalds himself, thanks to a generous offer he announced a week ago: For _me_ a traditional holiday activity tends to be a LEGO build or two, since that's often part of the presents... But in addition to the LEGO builds, this year I also ended up doing a number of guitar pedal kit builds ("LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron"). Not because I play guitar, but because I enjoy the tinkering, and the guitar pedals actually do something and are the right kind of "not very complex, but not some 5-minute 555 LED blinking thing"...
[S]ince I don't actually have any _use_ for the resulting pedals (I've already foisted off a few only unsuspecting victims^Hfriends), I decided that I'm going to see if some hapless kernel developer would want one.... as an admittedly pretty weak excuse to keep buying and building kits...
"It may be worth noting that while I've had good success so far, I'm a software person with a soldering iron. You have been warned... [Y]ou should set your expectations along the lines of 'quality kit built by a SW person who doesn't know one end of a guitar from the other.'"
Dunno about that (Score:2, Informative)
I lost HDMI sound on my linux. Put it back using the old driver, but it is an unpleasant downgrade with little or no information on how to recover from it. I get "no PCM in topology for HDMI converter" and no sound interface.
Some day I'll dig deep enough to figure out what is causing this shit if it doesn't resolve itself out.
Re: (Score:2)
Are you using Nvidia by any chance? I find that the Nvidia experience is getting worse and worse. Right now I'm having issues with monitor detection, it seems to take approximately forever to the system to react to a newly connected display.
Lazy preemption (Score:5, Informative)
The highlight on lwn and kernelnewbies is Lazy Preemption. https://kernelnewbies.org/Linu... [kernelnewbies.org] https://lwn.net/Articles/99432... [lwn.net]
Personally I look forward new schedulers based on this preemption mechanism. I am already extremely impressed by the state of the linux scheduler in my daily routine. Even at very high loads (compiling a big project) and playing a small game or doing some office tasks while I wait, linux is incredibly reactive. "top" might report a ridiculous load like 60x that should make the whole machine lag, but it is barely noticeable, just a small overhead when opening new applications. New schedulers might be even better.
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I am already extremely impressed by the state of the linux scheduler in my daily routine.
This kind of thing is one of the reasons I really like Linux. You can do stupid shit and the underlying OS is really robust and generally doesn't choke. This makes one off (i.e. code where it's not worth doing it "properly") way easier.
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Until you run out of RAM, then randomly shit starts dying.
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No operating systems deal very well with things running out of RAM. I've find that running with plenty of swap space prevents the worst kinds of thrashing when one process decides it wants all the RAM and then some.
Never underestimate the amateur (Score:3)
When I was young, and undirected, I tried building projects out of Popular Electronics. Among these, a pseudorandom generator, which I still have on the original 70s breadboard, and began my long infatuation with XOR gates. Then a NiCad battery rejuvenator of dubious utility, to help manage the pack of 20 cells I used to power a belt mount cassette player to wear while I skated around the city, oh the days*. And out of the blue, a weird analog synthesizer-like gadget to take inputs and modify them beyond recognition. This I made several of, one for a vibraphone player who made good/great use of it, and one for a rock guitar player who asked for mods for a frikin year, drove me crazy. It became a wacko pedal, and he seemed to use it a lot until it finally got dropped off the van and lost. I still resent that.
Linus, go forth and pursue this, you will at least help others have some more fun. A worthy second calling, do not doubt it.
What is this? (Score:2)
Wait, not a story about politics, or climate change? Nor is it a story about AI or block chain? Where are we? This isn't the slashdot I know! It's like a news for nerd!
Pedal kits (Score:2)
I had a look at some of those kits, they are interesting and seem pretty easy to put together. They are circuit reproductions of classic pedals which you can hear on youtube videos to get an idea of what you might like to have. Unfortunately the one I want is sold out due to Xmas purchases so I'll have to wait a while.
https://aionfx.com/project-typ... [aionfx.com]