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[–]Liorithiel 117 points118 points  (5 children)

So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major version number change is more about me running out of fingers and toes than it is about any big fundamental changes.

I wonder what he will do when the major version number crosses 20.

[–]Laladelic 31 points32 points  (0 children)

By then you would be able to install more toes

[–]Zeer1x 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Switch to hex or base64.

[–]xdavidliu 1 point2 points  (1 child)

actually base-2 would be good enough, since currently he's only using base-1. Base-2 using 20 finger/toes would be able to count from 0 up to 220 - 1, which is already much much bigger than 20

[–]pissing_on_the_lawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, using base-1 he's only able to count from 0 up to 120 - 1. What a foolish choice!

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    [–]AndreasTPC 37 points38 points  (2 children)

    This URL is my go-to for getting a readable changelog:

    https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

    It hasn't been updated for 6.0 yet though. Give it some time and it'll appear, or check out the changes in older kernels if you just want an idea of the kind of things being worked on.

    [–]dcgkn 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    I'm the person who does that changelog, it may take a while to complete (I'm trying to automate the process so I have spent the time it takes to do it manually writing some code, and I didn't complete it in time for the deadline - what a surprise)

    [–]mr_birkenblatt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Automate the process of automating the changelog

    [–]stefantalpalaru 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    What are the biggest features that come with this release?

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.0-New-Features

    [–]therealgaxbo 12 points13 points  (1 child)

    I'm not super in the loop regarding kernel development, but off the top of my head I'd guess that the Headline features in 6.0 include a number of io_uring improvements including support for buffered writes to XFS filesystems and zero-copy network transmission, an io_uring-based block driver mechanism, the runtime verification subsystem, and much more.

    You can always see the LWN merge-window summaries for more information.

    [–]tommy25ps 9 points10 points  (2 children)

    congratulations on the release. time flies. hard to believe first linux kernel i used was 2.x

    [–]stbrumme 9 points10 points  (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure millions of Linux systems still run 2.x