Ten Features You Will Not Find In The Mainline Linux 4.10 Kernel

[starshipeleven]

I'll look into that, thanks.

Hm, btw, it's easy to make pretty good antennas yourself on a shoestring budget, especially biquad and double biquad antennas, plenty of tutorials. http://buildyourownantenna.blogspot....-ghz-wifi.html

[Michael_S]

wifi ac is a bit of a scam in general, but directional antennas help quite a bit.

I'll look into that, thanks.

[ldo17]

reiser4 should just change its name already...

Or change the pronunciation somehow...

[starshipeleven]

Cool. I'm more interested in improvements to throughput, but I'll take what I can get. I have 802.11ac access points and wireless cards, but to get faster than 300 mbps throughput I need the antenna within ten feet of the access point. If I had known that before I made the upgrade, I would have saved myself a lot of money by sticking with 802.11n.

wifi ac is a bit of a scam in general, but directional antennas help quite a bit.

[Michael_S]

it makes latency lower. significantly

Cool. I'm more interested in improvements to throughput, but I'll take what I can get. I have 802.11ac access points and wireless cards, but to get faster than 300 mbps throughput I need the antenna within ten feet of the access point. If I had known that before I made the upgrade, I would have saved myself a lot of money by sticking with 802.11n.

[DJViking]

Are there any other features you would have enjoyed seeing in Linux 4.10?

Full support for Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.
The 4.10 kernel did seem to include limited support for it.

[Vistaus]

... you're going to switch to a different kernel just because people will be able to compile Linux with anything other than GCC?

Not to mention the fact that HURD has much more limited h/w support currently. So I wonder if it'll even run on his computer and/or work well...

[eydee]

Ten Features You Will Not Find In The Mainline Linux 4.10 Kernel

Also no 100000% performance improvement to everything and no infinite money pouring out of the computer every 2 minutes. Why is it always the unimportant things being mentioned?

[pal666]

I'll be curious to see what impact, if any, comes of the BufferBloat wifi improvements. I tried to read some of the more technical discussions of the work being done. But for anything more sophisticated than "it makes wifi faster", the details were too much for me.

it makes latency lower. significantly

[indepe]

Are there any other features you would have enjoyed seeing in Linux 4.10? Share your thoughts with us this weekend in the Phoronix Forums.

Nouveau support for Vulkan? Not that I expect it to appear in the kernel anytime soon, but definitely would have liked to hear it is being worked on.