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The 5.9 kernel has been released

([Kernel] Oct 11, 2020 23:15 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


Linus has [1]released the 5.9 kernel . " Ok, so I'll be honest - I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes this last week, but at the same time there doesn't really seem to be anything particularly scary in here. It's just more commits and more lines changed than I would have wished for. " Some of the significant features in this release are: x86 [2]FSGSBASE support , [3]capacity awareness in the deadline scheduler, the [4]close_range() system call, [5]proactive compaction in the memory-management subsystem, the [6]rationalization of kernel-thread priorities, and more. See [7]the KernelNewbies 5.9 page for more details.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/833996/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/821723/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/821578/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/789023/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/818388/

[7] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.9

speakup out of staging

the best and most welcome change. perhaps now Fedora will build kernels with accessibility support. at least I hope so.

speakup out of staging

the best and most welcome change. perhaps now Fedora will build kernels with accessibility support. at least I hope so.

Alan Olsen wrote:
> things correctly they have enhanced Wake-on-LAN to allow you to do
> things like reset the machine, update the BIOS and such by sending
> magic packets which are interpreted by the network card. Or maybe I am

Normally 'sending magic packets resets the machine' is considered a feature
reported to bugtraq. The alert stuff I have seen is more akin to sending SNMP
traps for things like people opening the lid, or fan failure

- Alan Cox on linux-kernel