Honest question: how many years do you think it'll be until embedded device manufacturers (routers, various TV boxes, wifi hard drives [1]) ship recent kernels? A $200 modem/router bought 6 months ago ships with a hacked up version of 2.6.36.4 that's barely buildable - mainly because the wifi chipset vendor refuses to open source their code and refuses to update the BSP [2].
1: http://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/item/wireless...
2: http://www.tp-link.com.au/gpl-code.html?model=Archer%20D9
>CPU accounting controller: Split cpuacct.usage into user usage and sys usage commit
Has anyone used this to calculate how many containers can be packed onto a machine based on historical usage data?
I see there's support for the new Radeon RX480. I've been thinking about picking up a Radeon card. Can anyone speak to their experience of Radeon support on Linux and whether or not you think it's a good idea?
Could anyone comment on the state of power management in Linux? Are we up to par with OSX and Windows yet?
too bad we'll never get a name as good as 'Hurr durr I'ma sheep' again
Just so long as kdbus hasn't been merged yet...
New in Linux 4.7: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.7