IT'S HAPPENING, Linus has in his infinite wisdom decided that the kernel was getting too high with 4.20 and tagged the kernel 5.0 six hours ago.
git.kernel.org
Linux 5.0!!!
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cool
PM'd you the solution.
Damnit linus
Linux naming convention has always been arbitrary though.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3e71fa2ee9ed..8c55b6404e19 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-VERSION = 5
-PATCHLEVEL = 0
+VERSION = 4
+PATCHLEVEL = 20
SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
+EXTRAVERSION =
-NAME = Shy Crocodile
+NAME = Blaze It
# *DOCUMENTATION*
while i agree linux was 2.x for a bit too long, i hope we don't go as far as chrome/firefox and end up with linux 70 in 5 years
witnessed
so what's new, has the thumbnailer or shitty nouveau drivers been fixed?
Based
no, but 5.0 will finally have support for freesync. that really is the only new major feature this time
not always, but recently it has been
>shitty nouveau drivers been fixed
Of course they haven't fixed the novidya drivers and they won't be fixed because the kernel nouveau developers can't. NVidia has made signed firmware a requirement since Kepler and it's not possible to reverse engineer the vbios.
The worst part is that developers have spent a lot of time and effort on nouveau in both kernel and MESA and it works well in terms of features. But all that is wasted as long as nvidia is actively preventing free and open drivers from doing power management. What this means is that you are limited to say 1030 performance on a 2080ti.
There's good reason for Linus's famous "nvidia fuck you".
Implying version numbers mean anything
Wait we didnt have freesync?
Its was changed per the coc. 420 offensive to weedfags
>Linux 5.0
>postnumber ends in 5
Based
No, but it may have appeared that way because the kernel was the last to get support merged for some reason. MESA supports it, X supports it and supports been there for some time but the amdgpu kernel driver has not have functioning support until now. Earlier kernels have been aware, though, like 4.19 and 4.20 could totally properly detect that you have a freesync monitor. But that alone ain't all that useful.
amdgpu freesync support in 5.0rc1 isn't very useful either since amdgpu's got a regression which causes a lot of random crashes,
bugs.freedesktop.org
not that this isn't somewhat expected of release candidates and git snapshots.
nvm figured it out
>recently
3.0 was released 8 years ago
nice. 4.20 forever.
Thanks for the info fren
>4.20 getting too high
Icy what you did there.