[HN Gopher] Linux 5.19
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       Linux 5.19
        
       Author : jrepinc
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-07-31 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (lore.kernel.org)
        
       | ah- wrote:
       | On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did
       | the         release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop.
       | It's something I've         been waiting for for a _loong_ time,
       | and it's finally reality, thanks         to the Asahi team. We've
       | had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a         long time,
       | but none of it has really been usable as a development
       | platform until now.                  It's the third time I'm
       | using Apple hardware for Linux development - I         did it
       | many years ago for powerpc development on a ppc970 machine.
       | And then a decade+ ago when the Macbook Air was the only real
       | thin-and-lite around. And now as an arm64 platform.
       | Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only
       | been         doing test builds and boots and now the actual
       | release tagging. But         I'm trying to make sure that the
       | next time I travel, I can travel with         this as a laptop
       | and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too.
        
         | rowanG077 wrote:
         | Awesome! I remember Linus wanting to use the M1 macbooks but he
         | was very somber on Linux working on there.
        
       | nequo wrote:
       | I like the evolutionary approach of the Linux kernel's
       | development model means that version numbers are arbitrary
       | labels:                   Anyway, regardless of all that, this
       | obviously         means that the merge window (*) will open
       | tomorrow.         [...]              (*) I'll likely call it 6.0
       | since I'm starting to         worry about getting confused by big
       | numbers again.
       | 
       | The new version of the Linux kernel is out and we can just get on
       | with our lives.
        
       | brianhorakh wrote:
       | Hopefully rust language enhancements will _finally_ merge into
       | Linux 6.0
       | 
       | i believe Linus knows how significant RUST would be for multi-
       | arch linux. This benign version bump should give all the C++ devs
       | plenty of headroom to stay in a stable 5.x while the rustaceans
       | oxidize the kernel ecosystem to make it (more) architecturally
       | neutral, typesafe, easier to dev modules and more secure. Ive
       | been a linux user since 0.97 and I can't recall being this
       | excited about the future!
        
         | CaliforniaKarl wrote:
         | C++? The Linux kernel is written in C, not C++.
        
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