Today, October 7, 2016, renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly announced the availability of the first point release to the latest Linux 4.8 kernel series.
As you might know already, Linux kernel 4.8 launched on October 2, as announced by Linus Torvalds himself, and it brought quite some interesting changes, including AMDGPU OverDrive support, Nvidia Pascal support, AMDGPU PowerPlay improvements, support for Raspberry Pi 3’s Broadcom BCM2837 system-on-chip (SoC), as well as support for Microsoft Surface 3 touch controller.
As with any new kernel branch, the first one is always marked as mainline, which means that it’s not yet ready to be deployed in stable GNU/Linux distributions, but only in those that are currently in deve… (read more)
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