Linux kernel Reviews and details

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• problem with connman

  Those other flashy distros like mint and ubuntus are designed with rich people with very fresh machines in mind, they don't care if you have an AMDx4 or core2duo or even 32bit older machine. Even Mint and ubuntu people will tell you, if you have an old machine with little ram, use antiX. It still works very well with machines not even released yet, buy one in May 2024 and I "guaranty you" antiX will run fine. ... Source: 5 months ago

• Is there a way to naively replicate a VarHandle.getOpque with fences?

  The memory_order_relaxed explanation on the kernel.org documentation heavily implies (never explicitly) that the direct memory load is implicit in the barrier(so by preventing it's reordering we are also forcing a LOAD from main), and that THIS specific barrier (relaxed) is what we NEED for these type of scenarios, so I am not entirely sure if a loadLoadFence() would prevent the hoisting... Maybe it will prevent... Source: 7 months ago

• Have some confusion around the Ubuntu Kernel

  Are all versions of the kernel from kernel.org called mainline kernels or only 6.6-rc4 as shown in the picture? Source: 7 months ago

• Devuan Upgrade: 4 to 5 Daedalus

  Devuan is a fork of Debian GNU+Linux without systemd. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Flutter 3 on Devuan 4: Getting started

  I built the dev env on Devuan GNU+Linux, a fork of Debian without systemd. It resembles my past trial on Artix Linux. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Android Studio on Devuan 4: Install

  Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd and hence Snaps (Snapd). Even on it, it's easy to install Android Studio and start to develop Android mobile apps. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Is there any oficial way to install 6.3 or 6.3 kernel in Debian 12

  One could also download the kernel source (from kernel.org), extract, copy the current configuration over the .config and then built+install it, but that's a rather more complicated route. Source: 10 months ago

• linux 6.4 and headers are released and can be found on joborun's jobcomm repository

  Last 3 upgraded pkgs on jobcore (linux-util, iproute2, mkinitcpio-busybox) mercurial on jobextra were built on a machine that booted linux6.4 the first stable release for this kernel released earlier today. Configuration is nearly the same with last few editions of 6.3 that run well, with the addition of a few more items 6.4 has included (see kernel.org for details). Source: 10 months ago

• Red Hat removing access to RHEL source code

  I can read the website yeah, but that doesn't really answer the question. Check out the sponsor page on the bottom of kernel.org. It also includes Red Hat. Source: 10 months ago

• Windows 10 End-of-Life for Organizations with No Budget.

  As a moderately extreme example, I happen to have a (recent) piece of hardware here in the lab with 128MiB memory and a single core, running a Linux kernel released last month. It's not a PC-compatible, but it demonstrates that supported releases aren't much dependent on hardware specs. Source: 11 months ago

• Trouble building kernel 6.3.8

  I've been trying to build kernel 6.3.8 on my debian system. I think I have everything installed that I need, but I could be missing a package. I've been following several guides like https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official. The only difference is that I'm using a kernel.org tarball. When I go to make the make bindeb-pkg seems to compile everything but fails... Source: 11 months ago

• The situation with Arch and util-linux

  Just in 12 hr util-linux has gone from pkgrel 4 to 8 and it doesn't seem over yet. Patch on top of patch and the source was changed from the regular release at kernel.org (linux main repository) to the developer's own git at github, in which special commits are drawn to build it. I suspect that since Arch is up ahead of everyone they are finding bugs first, the dev tries to patch the code to eliminate bugs, Arch... Source: 11 months ago

• Want to work on DeviceTree bindings that are missing

  I just got into kernel development and would I found a "warning" that I'd like to work on. It's a binding that is missing in the Documentation for the greybus driver. I saw that its a YAML file that needs to be made. I wanted to ask specific questions about this YAML file since I need to know very specific details about compatability with hardware. I would think the maintainer has some of the details that need to... Source: 11 months ago

• Longterm kernel .deb packages

  On kernel.org the latest longtem kernel is 6.1.32. On kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ there is a package with the .deb files to install v6.1.32, but the PPA is titled mainline and the packages are all named with the word test. Is this just in the context of Ubuntu, and it's still the right way to install the new longterm kernel without building from source? I have never done it and know there are fixes... Source: 11 months ago

• Gonna be buying a GPU for a new build in ~3 months, specific use case

  I for one welcome this move. The drivers for Arc prior to 6.2.x were a bit of a pain to setup. Since 6.2.x it's been very simple... Plug in and go. There are a lot of changing coming down the pipe, so keep your eyes on kernel.org as well as updates about these changes over at Phoronix. Source: 11 months ago

• How well-tested is nixos-unstable?

  Yes, but 6.2 is not LTS and 6.3 is already out. Non-LTS kernels aren't supported very long after the next version is released. See https://kernel.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Orange Pi 5 - Reliable?

  Kernel 6.3 is supposed to support RK3588. Armbian will eventually have a build that uses kernel 6.3 from kernel.org. Source: 12 months ago

• Firmware for Cirrus cs35l41 amplifier missing

  1 What would be better place to ask this question? Better than Reddit 2 What do you think is it possible that firmware for amplifiers should be provided by some driver package like Nvidia? 3 I used 4 weeks old downloadable tar with firmware from kernel.org repo, is it wise to fetch current master and use latest files? Source: 12 months ago

• Am the only one wondering how safe the Huawei Ubuntu Os is?

  Armbian are working on better graphics and moving to 6.? From kernel.org . At the moment they aren't posting daily builds and haven't been for some time. I haven't paid a lot of attention. Source: about 1 year ago

• Two questions in one, on repos, package lists, the kernel, and AMD graphics drivers

  I installed AHS on a ASUS Zephyrus G14 a few weeks ago, and it runs great. But how do I find, either on the MX website, or mxrepo.com, or debian's package lists, or even, G_d help me, on kernel.org, any detail on the updated graphics stack? What versions of stuff are running? AMDgpu is in the kernel...right? So why are people telling me to install the latest versions from AMD directly? There is certainly an amdgpu... Source: about 1 year ago

• The 6.3 kernel is released

  Frontpage of kernel.org always takes some time for it to update after a release is tagged in version control. Source: about 1 year ago