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Linux 4.14 Released
- mrsernine 9y ago>It bumps the limits to 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of physical address space. This "ought to be enough for anybody" ©. The © in the quote is a nice touch.
- mfrw 9y agodank humour ;)
- pwdisswordfish 9y agoHow is that dark?
- mfrw 9y agotypo .. I meant dank humor
- ronjouch 9y agoIt's a reference to a 1970s quote (probably mis-)attributed to Bill Gates: "640 kB ought to be enough for anybody". https://google.com/search?q=ought+to+be+enough+to+everybody https://google.com/search?q=ought+to+be+enough+to+everybody
- mpol 9y agoAnyone experience with switching from Radeon to AMDgpu driver? I am contemplating a switch here. I am using an AMD APU A8-7600 with X11 and XFCE desktop. Am also using KMS for booting. Only very sometimes I paly a game. I do watch a lot of videos. Any gotchas? Is it usable yet? And I am not misunderstanding things, right? :)
- zaarn 9y agoNot sure how well the APU's are supported on amdgpu yet, however, I used the amdgpu driver with a RX560 and RX570, in both cases it was incredibly stable and a simple matter of telling the mkinitcpio config to use the amdgpu module and not the radeon module when building the initramfs. KMS should be supported out of the box with amdgpu.
- mpol 9y agoThank you for your reply. I will give it a try then.
- majewsky 9y agoMy desktop has an R9 Nano (using a GCN 1.2 aka Fiji core) from 2015. I've been using AMDGPU since Linux 4.5 and couldn't be happier. Everything that I do works as intended, from desktop compositing to Minecraft to Steam games (no AAA stuff, but e.g. Cities Skylines and Portal 2 work flawlessly). (Haven't tested OpenCL, multi-monitor and HDMI audio, though.) So IMO, if your GPU is supported by the AMDGPU driver, by all means give it a try.
- distances 9y ago> no AAA stuff, but e.g. Cities Skylines and Portal 2 work flawlessly Do you get playable frame rates? Cities: Skylines pretty quickly falls to 20-30 fps even with a recent Nvidia card with closed Windows drivers, wondering how is the experience with AMDGPU.
- kleiba 9y agoThis summary page is a nice reminder of what an awesome project Linux actually is. If you recall the fact that this is a collaborative efforts of a distributed team of volunteers (although a big part of them backed by companies), it is simply amazing to look at the size and complexity of what came of this project.
- digi_owl 9y agoJust wish that what is built on top was not such a tire fire of egos and misplaced priorities.
- xyproto 9y agoI assume you are trolling, but I still want to say that: - Linux is built by developers, it is not built on top of personality traits. - Developers must have a minimum of ego to be able to believe in the possibility of creating working code. - The priorities have been good enough to make Linux a very successful project.
- digi_owl 9y agoLinux the kernel, yes. Linux the OS, only if you ignore anything beyond the server rack.
- skywhopper 9y agoWhile I don't disagree with your point, your argument is a poor one. "must have a minimum of ego" is a requirement for any productive endeavor. Software development is not a special case. "is not built on top of personality traits" is parsing the complaint too literally. It's unquestionable that the personality traits of those in charge turn many people off from wanting to contribute. Finally, the fact of success is very weak evidence that any particular personality trait involved was necessary to that success. It's a fallacy of the successful to believe that their path was the only one that could be successful, but at least they have reasons for believing that to be true. It's silly for observers to fall into the same trap of false logic.
- Jerry2 9y agoI'm experiencing USB issues. New kernel won't recognize my external HDDs that I connect through the USB 3.0 hub.
- zaarn 9y agoReboot once in case the update forgot to keep the DKMS files (Arch problem, usually, but sometimes apt messes this up too) Check your BIOS settings. If that doesn't help file a bug with your distro (more likely to be the problem) or consider informing someone working on the USB subsystem of a regression if it's truly a kernel problem.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoI've been running mainline kernels for years. Upgraded to 4.14 this morning using Ukuu on Cinnamon. As expected - no problems to report. (Dell XPS 15 9560, Cinnamon 18.2)
- rbanffy 9y ago> This kind of feature is also appearing in various other operating systems. How many other OSs are there in active development that have this feature?
- arca_vorago 9y agoI've been on 4.14 since last week when I built my new Ryzen system and realized for some reason lm_sensors wasn't working, apparently AMD hasn't realized full specs yet which is a little frustrating. Updated to 4.14 via the very awesome https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Kernels https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Kernels tool and loaded nc6775 module and all is well.
- jabl 9y agoIt might be in 4.15: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.1/03366.html http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.1/03366.html
- caio1982 9y agoThese release summaries KN publishes are awesome (and to be fair far from simple summaries!). I recall reading every one of them back in the days, only to learn about random stuff I've never heard about before. On the other hand, the ridiculous amount of "commit" links in the generated page... :-)