The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel

[xxmitsu]

I'm considering stepping out of Fedora to get out of mainline hell. Using the latest versions has certainly become better over the last years, but it's still the most buggy software on my laptop.

If you want to live bleeding edge on fedora, you might be interested in:

• kernel: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug
• mesa/llvm: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/che/mesa/

I've been using those for more than a year.

[mike@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer' 
OpenGL renderer string: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc30.x86_64, LLVM 9.0.0)
[mike@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.0.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 18 04:32:16 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Compartmentalisation]

Thank you everyone for the NVMe experiences! Don't want to ping you.

If you want to live bleeding edge on fedora, you might be interested in:

• kernel: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug
• mesa/llvm: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/che/mesa/

I've been using those for more than a year.

[mike@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer'
OpenGL renderer string: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc30.x86_64, LLVM 9.0.0)
[mike@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.0.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 18 04:32:16 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks for the links. It's actually Fedora using mainline kernel that makes it incredibly buggy even on "blessed" ThinkPad hardware with Intel graphics. Most of the rest of the software is bug-free. But you have things like a random 4.20 update breaking drivers again, trying 5.0 and finding them still broken. Or PowerTOP being broken with the latest 4.20 update (which is crucial for my laptop because of the poor default kernel power management; with mostly only Fedora and Intel trying to make a difference there). There's a copr with the latest LTS kernel which works nicely for me, for F28 and F29.

Sorry for the negativity, thanks for the links ❤️