Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈
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https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.6.6
This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.6.6
This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
Six Six Six, The kernel of the beast.
Hell and fire was spawned to be released
Boards blazed and reviewed codes were praised
As they start to try, hands held to the sky
In the night, the coffee is burning hot
The commit has begun, Linus work is done
This can't go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can't avoid Tivoization!
No, because he has already sent the beast with wrath.
— because he knows the time is short.
In any case, let him who have understanding
reckon the kernel of the beast;
for it is a human number;
not a semver number. So don't worry about it. \
yieeeeeeaaaaaaaahhh
It's an old meme but it checks out. Older than some of the people in this community haha
For anyone that hasn't seen it, it's a reference to this satirical article from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030128011354/http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix.
Wow, that's a blast from the past! Completely forgot that LILO used to be a thing.
I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? It's been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)
I used Ubuntu at the time... It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldn't download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.
Similar experiences here. I remember waiting for the free CDs bundles with monthly magzines, and add then I'd the CD as a mirror in my repos to update my packages lol
Ubuntu was the distribution that had me switch from dual-booting with Windows as default to dual-booting with Linux as default.
I also remember ordering an actual Ubuntu disc, with the extra donation to fund the mailing for free program.
Now years later after lots of distro-hopping I just run Ubuntu LTS, and stay on the very boring LTS branch.
Man I've seen derivatives of this stuff, but this must be the OG post - thanks for that!
I thought the whole Lunix thing came from the elite hacker JEFF.K!!!!!!!!!11 so I'm chuffed there's another level to this!
It's funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that it's just satire though.
oh I guess that's also something that younger people may not know about... In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasn't uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.
Can't wait for someone extremely religious question if they should update to this cursed version.
6.6.5 has been a massive pain in the ass with the MTK wifi in my asus g14. very happy this got released quickly, no more deadlocks!
I had been trying out Linux and finally decided to install it to my ssd. The timing ended up such that I got the wifi issues on the new install but not my old one, and they basically make the OS unusable. I didn't realise any of this and am new so did heaps of reinstalling and searching trying to figure out what had gone wrong since it was all fine when it was installed on my HDD.
I finally found some forum posts and bug reports about this after wasting a day assuming it was something I'd done wrong 😂.
Gonna stick to lts kernel from now on I think. 6.6.6 seemed pretty fitting to me, even if it was 6.6.5 that actually broke it.
Yay, happy hail Satan day everyone. I remember when Intel chickened out and rounded up their 666 megahertz pentium 3 processors to report as being 667 megahertz. Absolute cowards, no wonder China is kicking their ass.
And that there is no version 9: no windows 9 no iPhone 9 etc. I think it’s s unlucky number somewhere in Asia
iirc the no windows 9 thing was actually because a lot of software ran a compatibility check like:
if windows version = “windows 9*” then open legacy mode
This worked for software written for newer windows like xp but still allowing a legacy mode on older windows versions like 95 and 98. Problem was this also put that same software running on windows 9 into legacy mode. So they called it windows 10 to sidestep the compatibility issues.
It's great to see to what lengths Microsoft goes to keep backwards compatibility. Compared to how a minor glibc update broke Linux apps without much warning. Without supporting legacy workflows I don't think Microsoft would've had the market share they have today.
I believe that's apocryphal... Some people came up with that theory on twitter, but AFAIK it's not been confirmed. It only matters in some edge cases of an edge case.
And let's be real, if backwards compatibility really mattered, they could have made the API return "Nine" or "IX" or whatever and used "9" everywhere else in the UI, marketing, packaging, whatever.
The real reason is probably the simplest and stupidest: Microsoft's marketing department got impatient and went for the big round number because 10>9. Also why NVIDIA went 9xx->10xx->20xx... bigger number = better, it's really that mind-numbingly stupid.
In Japan it is number 4 because sound like their word for death (something among those lines)
which is kinda stupid because they have two words for 4 (shi and yon) and only shi sounds like death.
If it's anything like Korean (and it probably is), it's specific when you can use each version of the word so it's not like you could simply swap shi for yon
Is it time to start shit posting on myfacespace about the satanic computers running the world already?
It kind of makes sense. First I've ever heard about Ubuntu Christian Edition as well, but it seems to mostly be set up with filtering in mind, with the DNS tools and such. Add in productivity software aimed at preaching I guess, and you have a "safe" OS for kids and the laptop hooked up to the projector at a church.
I.. We did it.Got the 666th.. ground rumbles, and ruptures bringing forth the second comming of the year of the linux desktop
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