Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)
from petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 21:21
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/12363685

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d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz on 10 Mar 2024 22:03 next collapse

Anther exciting release! Looking forward to the new bcachefs performance improvements (and fsck, finally) and KSM advisor - hopefully with this, KSM becomes more practical.

yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml on 10 Mar 2024 23:19 next collapse

bcachefs

initially read this as bca chefs

MisterD@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 2024 23:46 collapse

Meanwhile in Mint, I can only get BTRFS by partitioning the hard drive manually.

swab148@startrek.website on 11 Mar 2024 02:38 collapse

Manually? Like, with a knife?

Johannes@programming.dev on 11 Mar 2024 02:53 collapse

No, a magnetized needle and a steady hand is all you need.

Spider89@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 22:19 collapse

Nio, you just need butterflies.

narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee on 10 Mar 2024 22:20 next collapse

I’m still on 6.6. 6.7 onwards (including 6.8-rc7) caused flickering and crashes with VRR enabled after waking up from standby on my Radeon 7800 XT. I’ll check out the final version, but I doubt this is fixed.

ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today on 11 Mar 2024 03:10 next collapse

That flickering, is it only on Wayland? I’m on 6.7 and have flickering on Wayland but not X11.

narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee on 11 Mar 2024 06:39 collapse

Yes. Fedora 39, KDE Plasma 5, Wayland, VRR on dual displays.

PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 03:52 collapse

I don’t think I have this on the latest 6.8 RC. I have one of the RDNA 3 dedicated cards as well. Hope they get it resolved either way.

If helps in the meantime, I think you can often TTY switch in order to restart the display signal. Ctrl + Alt + F3/F4 should get you a new console. Then switch back to your desktop with Ctrl + Alt + F1/F2 (the right one may depend on your distro).

This gets my display fixed when it gets any kind of funky 99% of the time. Sometimes it takes a few tries

narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee on 11 Mar 2024 06:40 next collapse

Thanks for the suggestion, but the system eventually crashes and automatically restarts.

Bene7rddso@feddit.de on 11 Mar 2024 14:33 collapse

Usually the desktop is on Ctrl+Alt+F7

SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 2024 00:46 collapse

How much rust in there?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 11 Mar 2024 01:09 next collapse

Some. Better get the WD40.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 11 Mar 2024 01:53 collapse

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I consider Linux a tool so it applies

Bene7rddso@feddit.de on 11 Mar 2024 14:28 collapse

What kind of tool do they mean here? 🤨

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 11 Mar 2024 04:17 collapse

Also new is initial Rust support for the LoongArch architecture, a UFFDIO_MOVE uABI operation to allow pages to be moved within a virtual address space while avoiding page allocation and memcpy done by UFFDIO_COPY, the KSM advisor feature to automatically manage the kernel samepage merging subsystem, support for the SMB file system to create block and character special files, and Rust support for creating network PHY drivers.

Looks like it’s starting to trickle in