by TacticalCoder
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- > Linux 7.1 is also notable for its code removals. Driven by AI-assisted bug reporting, ISDN and other old network driver code was removed to avoid that influx of bug reporting against those very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware.
Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports is IMO one of the best consequence ever of AI.
I love it.
We should start trimming the fat out of everything.
by samhclark
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- Personally, I'm pretty excited for this commit which fixes the slow WiFi I've had with the combination of my ISP's modem/router and my laptop.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711a9c018ad252b2807...
Hope it gets to Fedora soon!
by globular-toast
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- Is there anything particularly interesting about this? The first number of the version changes when the second number gets too big, not for any other reason.
by smetannik
2 subcomments
- Looking forward for a new NTFS driver to try. I hope this new iteration will be better than ntfs3 from Paragon.
by GreenSalem
1 subcomments
- Current default for Arch is 7.0.10
Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.
by johnnytech
0 subcomment
- My favroite kernel version is 6.1.34. Traditional framebuffers for the win!
by imoverclocked
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- Breaking: Linus is on travel.
Did I miss something about this or is it just another number?
- Did anyone see an anime avatar flash by for a fraction of a second before the content loaded? What was that?
- Looking back, I wonder what really changed over 25 years for the linux ecosystem. We had lots of distros, there were games built for linux (I remember playing the entire Neverwinter nights on debian) there was wine for StarCraft broodwars, x11+compiz for cool accelerated desktop graphics, proprietary Nvidia drivers were always there. Sure, everything was 32bit but it was good enough for desktop, and amd64 was about to pop.
The other day I tried to install fedora 44 on a friend's computer. He wanted kde so we set that up and whoops, no way to start programs on the discrete video card. I hacked around it by starting xorg, setting an alias and environment variables, but it was a bit embarrassing to see that things have regressed.
- From 6 to 7
by naturalmovement
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- what a legend!
- how many new code came from AI ？
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