We are only two minor versions away from a very nice milestone.
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Just to upset you, the next 2 versions are 6.8, and 9.0.
Linus is a coward
Let's make a petition. Kernel version 6.9.420 must be free!
No way we switched to microsoft versioning :o
What happened to 7 and 8?
Same as Windows 9
Seven is spending a very long time in jail for cannibalism.
7 ate 9
Those were skipped to upset you :D
6.8 to 9.0 would upset a lot of people
69, interrupted with a period?
This should allow nouveau to reclock NVIDIA 2xxx and newer GPUs. Huge step forward for open source NVIDIA drovers and I've been testing this on my laptop for a few weeks now woth the rc kernels and the NVK driver and it's pretty impressive so far.
I'm ready for my system to just work out of the box Nvidia's Drivers are a shit show.
Really looking forward to more bcachefs figures
Bcachefs kek new filesystem noice