Just one day after the announcement of the Linux 4.7 kernel’s GA release, the SparkyLinux developers inform users that they can now test-drive the new kernel from the unstable repository.
Linux kernel 4.7 was officially announced by Linus Torvalds on July 24, 2016, and it’s a cool release that brings out-of-the-box support for the new Radeon RX 480 graphics cards from AMD, the LoadPin security module to ensure that modules loaded by the kernel originate from the same file system, and support for parallel directory lookups.
Other features of the Linux 4.7 kernel include the implementation of the EFI “Capsule” mechanism to support firmware upgrades, the availability of the faster and more accurate “schedutil” frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency … (read more)
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