Linux 6.8 Is Announced (opens in new tab)

(omgubuntu.co.uk)

40 pointsdirigeant2y ago3 comments

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After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released.

“This is not the historically big release that 6.7 was – we seem to be back to a fairly average release size for the last few year.”

> There’s also a new zswap mode to disable writing back to swap entirely.

At that point why not just use zram swap? Either way it's just "swapping" into compressed ram and never going to disk, right?

very curious about the intel xe drivers; weirdly, they seem like a good bet for graphics on alternative cpu architectures

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After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released.

“This is not the historically big release that 6.7 was – we seem to be back to a fairly average release size for the last few year.”

> There’s also a new zswap mode to disable writing back to swap entirely.

At that point why not just use zram swap? Either way it's just "swapping" into compressed ram and never going to disk, right?

very curious about the intel xe drivers; weirdly, they seem like a good bet for graphics on alternative cpu architectures

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