A new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot has been released on the day of August 4, 2016, bringing various updated packages among which we can mention the recently announced Linux 4.7 kernel.
Yes, you are reading that right! openSUSE Tumbleweed is now officially powered by Linux kernel 4.7, which replaces the Linux 4.6.4 kernel that was used in the GNU/Linux distribution until August 4, 2016.
The Linux 4.7 kernel was officially released on July 24, 2016, by Linus Torvalds, and it brings support for newer AMD Radeon GPUs, such as the RX 480, as well as the “schedutil” frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem.
Moreover, there’s a brand new security module, called LoadPin, designed from the ground up to make sure all the modules loaded by the kernel originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP.
Other than that, Linux kernel 4.7 comes with a stable release of the sync_file fencing mecha… (read more)
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