Linux 5.16 has many new features including the FUTEX2 futex_waitv system call for helping Steam Play (and Wine), memory folios have been mainlined, AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile series support is getting into better shape, Intel Alder Lake S graphics are now considered stable, Intel AMX support for Sapphire Rapids has landed, big AMD Ryzen with Radeon graphics performance improvements, and a wealth of other hardware improvements.
And this new kernel release will find its way to your computer soon if you’re using either a bleeding edge distribution or manually added a kernel repository with up-to-date kernels (I tend go with xanmod).
I’m not too bugged Linux Mint drag their feet a little. I’d rather someone else threw themselves into the combine harvester of “bleeding edge” technology.
I don’t personally like this “bleeding edge” phrase. It’s far too graphic and violent but then this is what you expect from a male dominated industry. I bet if it was called a Mooncup full of menstruation the name would be changed very quickly!
i am not a linguist or a language historian, but this is the best discussion of the term “bleeding edge” i could find in a quick search for its origin: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39918/is-there-a-difference-between-leading-edge-and-bleeding-edge.
while this does seem to be a term of use mainly in the technical world, none of the discussion i could find anywhere had any reference to sex, gender, or sexuality. i also do not think i have ever heard it used in such a context.
Just when I started reading your comments you come up with this…really…seriously. How you can read sexism into pretty much every topic and term is beyond my understanding. Guess I am back to ignoring all of your comments because when doing a net sum, you are in the negative for me.
It’s a talent.
Wow
Running the latest mainline/stable kernel is not what I would call `bleeding edge`.
Agreed. I can see being a bit more conservative in some settings but, as a desktop user, I cannot think of the last time I had a problem with quality in a stable kernel.
It would be extremely rare for stable Linux kernel to break something… Except for proprietary drivers.
I remember having to wrestle with Nvidia scripts every now and then thanks to Linux moving forward, but them depending on older ABIs.
sukru,
Same here, although I would expand ABI breakages to also include out of tree drivers and patches in general whether they are open source or proprietary. We sometimes forget that some things don’t make it into the official kernel even though it’s FOSS. Not that normal users are affected by this, but developers can be.