Crappy title.
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
Submitted 1 year ago by 3arn0wl@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/linux_6_6_debuts/
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Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Snowplow8861@lemmus.org 1 year ago
It’s paraphrasing Torvalds himself though. It’s a cheeky title. You can choose to be offended though.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Actually, I think I have misread it. My bad. I’m the one running out of caffeine, it seems.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
I could have sworn he has used this joke before? Like in the past year?
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know I shouldn’t put too much weight onto what the numbers actually mean, but it’s still weird to think we’re only on version 6 after all this time.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 year ago
I blame browsers for their out of control versioning.
Chrome is on version 118 now and gets a bump roughly every 6 months. Firefox is 4 years older, yet they started following the same rapid versioning at version 5 to “keep up” with Chrome which was already on version 12 but a younger browser.
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Their release cycle is rougly 1 month. Same with all other browsers. I know because I worked on a tool that had to keep up with browser versions.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even more weird: Version 3 was released in 2011. In the same timespan we went from 2 -> 3 we went from 3 -> 6!
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 year ago
2011 is actually the same year Firefox started their rapid versioning to try and match Chrome. There was definitely a shift in versioning styles around then.
mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
!unexpectedfactorial
na_th_an@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still have my Firefox 3.0 Download Day PDF certificate.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
yeah, windows are clearly ahead… bastards!
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rubbing it in our faces going from 95 all the way down to 11 too smh…
chili1553@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just for fun bro
REdOG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Im happ that I’ll live through kernel of the beast times
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“So this last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is,” Torvalds wrote early on Monday morning, as version 6.6 debuted as planned.
Among the highlights of the release are the KSMBD in-kernel server for the SMB networking protocol, which adds additional features for sharing files and improving inter-process communication in Linux, hopefully speeding I/O.
Speaking of AMD, early tests by the Linux-lovers at Phoronix found substantial performance gains for its manycore “Bergamo” CPUs thanks to the inclusion of the Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler.
The kernel also added support for AMD’s Dynamic Boost Control tech that allows users to tune Ryzen CPUs for optimal performance.
A change to this cut of the kernel rebrands it as just “SELinux” – a reaction to the Agency’s role in ops that have harmed privacy, per Edward Snowden.
US-based contributors will also have a Thanksgiving-sized hole kicked in their schedules, making it possible work on this release will be slow and Torvalds could push it into early 2024.
The original article contains 506 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Two included contextual references got lost - “speaking of AMD” and “this cut of the kernel”.
dontcarebear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Had issues with amdgpu in 6.5. Hope it got resolved in 6.6.
alexyeahdude@kbin.social 1 year ago
I get that Linus is a superhero, but it's still so weird to me that this vital piece of the world's infrastructure relies on one man.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
I think its better to think of it like a president or prime minister. He might set the plan and direction and making the big decisions, but there are thousands of others supporting and making the plan actually happen.
In the past he has delegated the release to others as well.
So if the worst would happen, the linux project would continue operating fairly seamlessly.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Is benevolent dictator still the official title?
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 year ago
That’s pretty much all of open source to be fair. It’s a real problem.
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's also mind blowing to consider that as many other projects, both Linux and Python started as a hobyist project never meant to do more than cater to some personal needs.
This taught me how important is allocating time for your team for their personal projects, as the next school romance anime tagging system could be the cornerstone of every AI in the future.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except 99.999% of personal projects won’t be that popular and allocating time for personal projects is a waste in that regard. Basically you’d be playing lottery and not get anything out of it.
There’s plenty of reasons to encourage personal projects, but this isn’t one of them.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Relevant xkcd xkcd.com/2347/
It is a small bunch of people though.
TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 1 year ago
www.theregister.com/2016/…/npm_left_pad_chaos/
This legit actually happened
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
That’s because it doesn’t. He is the top level manager but there are many more engineers “under” him moving the pieces into place.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 year ago
OSS is heavily undermaintained, always has been. But the world hasn’t exploded from it yet.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
If you think OSS is undermaintained, you really ought to look at the way 90% of commercial software is developed.
It’s at least equally bad if not worse, with the added bonus that no one else can step in even if they really wanted to.
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
The kernel will figure something out. There are already lots of companies investing their own development into it. Would just need a new leader to emerge. Perhaps a rotating group of people who are responsible for managing a single release.
Tons of smaller but important projects don’t have this luxury, though.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Linux is developed by a ton of people. As soon as Linus is out of the picture (say, because he retires), someone else will take his place.
Apple didn’t disappear just because Steve Jobs was gone.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not really, the bus factor is greater than 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7BqWDCd8Q