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  • what a legend!
    by betimsl
  • From 6 to 7
    by ares623
  • My favroite kernel version is 6.1.34. Traditional framebuffers for the win!
    by johnnytech
  • Breaking: Linus is on travel.

    Did I miss something about this or is it just another number?

    by imoverclocked
  • Surprised nobody will spring for the inflight WiFi for Linus. Has to be some of the best return per dollar that could be spent!
    by bombcar
  • Yeah, it gets boring when the number change doesn't change and try improving everything at once, but the great thing is that freshness improves driven by number fomo and that tightens the improvement loop.

    Exciting and risky things are always under flags, so if you really care you just build, configure, and bench your own kernel+system.

    by dietr1ch
  • - "Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1." - "nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be."

    So, a number.

    by dimiprasakis
  • Did anyone see an anime avatar flash by for a fraction of a second before the content loaded? What was that?
    by Y-bar
  • Anubis bot protection: https://anubis.techaro.lol
    by bzzzt
  • It is a way to block bots, similarly to Cloudflare or Google's captcha. The Arch Linux website uses it.
    by Shellban
  • That’s Anubis. [0]

    [0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol

    by Hackbraten
  • uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

      ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
  */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image
    (c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310941
    by notafox
  • Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

    blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic:

    https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

    by konart
  • Looking back, I wonder what really changed over 25 years for the linux ecosystem. We had lots of distros, there were games built for linux (I remember playing the entire Neverwinter nights on debian) there was wine for StarCraft broodwars, x11+compiz for cool accelerated desktop graphics, proprietary Nvidia drivers were always there. Sure, everything was 32bit but it was good enough for desktop, and amd64 was about to pop.

    The other day I tried to install fedora 44 on a friend's computer. He wanted kde so we set that up and whoops, no way to start programs on the discrete video card. I hacked around it by starting xorg, setting an alias and environment variables, but it was a bit embarrassing to see that things have regressed.

    by nurettin
  • Current default for Arch is 7.0.10

    Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.

    by GreenSalem
  • Fedora is in a few months I think. currently on 7.0.12
    by senectus1
  • Looking forward for a new NTFS driver to try. I hope this new iteration will be better than ntfs3 from Paragon.
    by smetannik
  • It’s good. I packaged it in my gentoo overlay and have been using it for a couple months, none of the weird issues ntfs3 had.
    by joecool1029
  • What is lacking in the previous one? NTFS support in linux is mostly to read and write files from windows disks, right? I think all the NTFS linux drivers - even the fuse one before the Paragon one - have been alright at that.
    by bubblethink
  • Is there anything particularly interesting about this? The first number of the version changes when the second number gets too big, not for any other reason.
    by globular-toast
  • Yeah, my favorite $6 Linux machine is now supported (somewhat). :)
    by megous
  • LWN merge window part 1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1067250/ Part 2 https://lwn.net/Articles/1067785/
    by diegocg
  • If you have an ad blocker, https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-features-changes is a nice summary.
    by lern_too_spel
  • Personally, I'm pretty excited for this commit which fixes the slow WiFi I've had with the combination of my ISP's modem/router and my laptop.

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711a9c018ad252b2807...

    Hope it gets to Fedora soon!

    by samhclark
  • Here's the mail for that for anyone curious

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/99Mv9QEceyPrQhSP52MtAVmz0_kWJmzq...

    by lionkor
  • > Linux 7.1 is also notable for its code removals. Driven by AI-assisted bug reporting, ISDN and other old network driver code was removed to avoid that influx of bug reporting against those very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware.

    Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports is IMO one of the best consequence ever of AI.

    I love it.

    We should start trimming the fat out of everything.

    by TacticalCoder
  • Chesterton's Fence...
    by conorcleary
  • Code is liability. AI just made it harder to ignore.
    by knorker
  • > very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware

    I guess end users can not upgrade but a definition of obsolete would be nice.

    To me, every HP printer ever is obsolete. But I assume someone else has an equally valid and different opinion. How does that go with computer hardware?

    by _carbyau_
  • > Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports

    Obviously, the parent is /s, but when I read this, I thought Linux was removing exploit paths that exercise rarely-used features.

    On phone OSes at least, quirky rare formats and features are (were?) a common source of exploitable bugs.

    by fn-mote