Linux 6.6-rc5 Released: "Things Are Back To Normal"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.6-rc5 Released: "Things Are Back To Normal"

As we approach the Linux 6.6 stable release in a few weeks, Linus Torvalds today released Linux 6.6-rc5 with everything looking "normal" for this week's test release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-rc5

[waxhead]

Personally I am looking forward to the 6.6 kernel finding is way into the Debian testing repos so that I can have the EEVDF scheduler working is magic under the hood. I know it's mostly psychological but there is something magical with a new and (hopefully) better algorithm doing its thing behind the scenes.

I wonder where the NEST scheduler will fit into this mix as well. It will sure be interesting to see...

[darkbasic]

If you are using one of AMD's latest APUs chances are you really want 6.6.

[avis]

Michael

Gnome is looking forward to dropping X11 support altogether: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...ge_requests/99

[Etherman]

Personally I am looking forward to the 6.6 kernel finding is way into the Debian testing repos so that I can have the EEVDF scheduler working is magic under the hood. I know it's mostly psychological but there is something magical with a new and (hopefully) better algorithm doing its thing behind the scenes.

I wonder where the NEST scheduler will fit into this mix as well. It will sure be interesting to see...

Scheduler changes aren't always psychological. I remember the very snappy scheduler of Linux 2.4 series that boosted idle task priority so much that my audio playback popped each time i clicked the program menu :-)
Good times.