(IJCH) "Moray" Linux Kernel 4.17 - Better Performance and Security
(IJCH) "Moray" Linux Kernel 4.17 - Better Performance and Security
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I am JaiChai.
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"Moray" Linux Kernel 4.17 - Better Performance and Security
The new Linux kernel 4.17 comes with better power management; meaning, laptops will last longer and desktops will have a smaller carbon footprint.
Although the PowerBook 100 is still being supported, on a more pragmatic note, other architectures have been dropped. Such is the case of eight obsolete CPUs, including the Unicore32, Blackfin, and Hexagon, among others.
All of these processors are very niche and are being superseded by other more modern alternatives.
IMHO, deleting code support for such dinosaurs is a great benefit - sleeker, faster ops. In other words, "Fight the war against Code Bloat!"
...kernel 4.17 also comes with HDCP, or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. This is the technology that "protects" proprietary content by making perfectly functional, but uncertified hardware underperform or directly useless.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. But I'm more excited about the support for more drivers/controllers and AMD video cards, enabled AMDGPU DC (no need for external DKMS driver for Radeon cards), HDMI/DP audio, and AMDKFD.
Support for the RISC-V, the open source processor architecture, is also chugging along nicely.
Developers have added dynamic ftrace on RISC-V, cleaned up the atomic and locking routines, as well as the module loading support.
For more info on Kernel updates visit Phoronix at:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home
By JaiChai
Mighty Kind of You for stopping by.
Truly hope to see you again!
About the Author
Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an AA, BS and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life – while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic.
In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he performed high altitude, free-fall parachute jumps and hazardous diving ops in deep, open ocean water.
After 24 years of active duty, he retired in Asia.
Since then, he's been a full-time, single papa and actively pursuing his varied passions (Writing, Disruptive Technology, Computer Science and Cryptocurrency - plus more hobbies too boring or bizarre for most folk).
He lives on an island paradise with his teenage daughter, longtime girlfriend and three dogs.
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