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This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Six Six Six, The kernel of the beast.
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Boards blazed and reviewed codes were praised
As they start to try, hands held to the sky
In the night, the coffee is burning hot
The commit has begun, Linus work is done

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This can't go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can't avoid Tivoization!

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We need a petition to make this LTS.

[–] PHLAK 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Missed opportunity to bake Doom into the kernel as an Easter Egg.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"to compile the kernel you must kill me, Linus Romero"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

... I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

It's an old meme but it checks out. Older than some of the people in this community haha

For anyone that hasn't seen it, it's a reference to this satirical article from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030128011354/http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html

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[–] AlmightySnoo 90 points 6 months ago

FreeBSD is now obsolete

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Can't wait for someone extremely religious question if they should update to this cursed version.

[–] superduperenigma 41 points 6 months ago

Time to make the switch to TempleOS.

[–] ikidd 27 points 6 months ago

"Trinity Desktop will not function on this version of Linux"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

We'll wait until 7.7.7 so all of the religious folk switch to linux

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago

Daemons Unleashed

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's a fancy number, but the release only fixes some wifi regressions. Nothing wild.

[–] cheerjoy 95 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, wifi drivers have to be made from demonic arts.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] PixxlMan 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't even want to imagine printing over wifi drivers..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, metal as fuck WiFi regressions!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I had been trying out Linux and finally decided to install it to my ssd. The timing ended up such that I got the wifi issues on the new install but not my old one, and they basically make the OS unusable. I didn't realise any of this and am new so did heaps of reinstalling and searching trying to figure out what had gone wrong since it was all fine when it was installed on my HDD.

I finally found some forum posts and bug reports about this after wasting a day assuming it was something I'd done wrong πŸ˜‚.

Gonna stick to lts kernel from now on I think. 6.6.6 seemed pretty fitting to me, even if it was 6.6.5 that actually broke it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm not installing this... Scary. Will wait for 6.6.7 in a few days. :)

[–] Hiro8811 19 points 6 months ago

I'm not gonna update to any other kernel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the kernel that lives across the street

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[–] subtext 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The kernel I didn’t even know I needed

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[–] seaQueue 24 points 6 months ago

Is it time to start shit posting on myfacespace about the satanic computers running the world already?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Satanic Edition's favourite kernel.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Wished they dropped this on the 13th πŸ‘€

[–] Darkncoldbard 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The number of the beast!!"

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Finally, our time has come

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

If this post gets 666 upvotes hell will definitely break loose lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wait, crap! I'm already on 6.7.0-rc4 v.v Not gonna accept a lower number just to hail Satan a little extra πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Besides, 6.7 might have something neat in it. I'm not weird, you're weird!

~...~ ~I~ ~use~ ~Arch~ ~and/or~ ~Gentoo~ ~bytheway~ <.<

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago
[–] deathmetal27 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

does this mean steve ballmer was right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Oh wow I didn't realize he repeated 'developers, developers, ...' 666 times on that event.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] LeroyJenkins 12 points 6 months ago

I CAN FINALLY GO TO HELL! πŸ”₯

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

"It's all for you daemon!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

now we can merge the bsd source tree

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

🀘LETS GOOOOO🀘

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

πŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ‘ΉπŸ‘ΉπŸ‘Ή

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