842

This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 143 points 5 months ago

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

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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!

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 121 points 5 months ago

We need a petition to make this LTS.

[-] PHLAK@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 99 points 5 months ago

Missed opportunity to bake Doom into the kernel as an Easter Egg.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 60 points 5 months ago

"to compile the kernel you must kill me, Linus Romero"

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 21 points 5 months ago

... I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.

[-] dan@upvote.au 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 10 points 5 months ago

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.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago

FreeBSD is now obsolete

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 62 points 5 months ago

Daemons Unleashed

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 61 points 5 months ago

Can't wait for someone extremely religious question if they should update to this cursed version.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

Time to make the switch to TempleOS.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

"Trinity Desktop will not function on this version of Linux"

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago

We'll wait until 7.7.7 so all of the religious folk switch to linux

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 48 points 5 months ago

It's a fancy number, but the release only fixes some wifi regressions. Nothing wild.

[-] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago

I mean, wifi drivers have to be made from demonic arts.

[-] pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br 47 points 5 months ago
[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

I don't even want to imagine printing over wifi drivers..

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 43 points 5 months ago

Yeah, metal as fuck WiFi regressions!

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] soupcat@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 months ago

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

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.

load more comments (9 replies)
[-] 1984@lemmy.today 36 points 5 months ago

I'm not installing this... Scary. Will wait for 6.6.7 in a few days. :)

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I'm not gonna update to any other kernel

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 months ago

the kernel that lives across the street

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] subtext@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

The kernel I didn’t even know I needed

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] adam_b@infosec.pub 27 points 5 months ago

Wished they dropped this on the 13th 👀

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

Tell me why I should upgrade from my Linux 4.20 kernel

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] zjaume@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

Ubuntu Satanic Edition's favourite kernel.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Is it time to start shit posting on myfacespace about the satanic computers running the world already?

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago

Finally, our time has come

[-] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

"The number of the beast!!"

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] kellyaster@kbin.social 18 points 5 months ago
[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wait, crap! I'm already on 6.7.0-rc4 v.v Not gonna accept a lower number just to hail Satan a little extra 🤷‍♀️

Besides, 6.7 might have something neat in it. I'm not weird, you're weird!

~...~ ~I~ ~use~ ~Arch~ ~and/or~ ~Gentoo~ ~bytheway~ <.<

[-] root@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago

If this post gets 666 upvotes hell will definitely break loose lol

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago
[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 11 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

does this mean steve ballmer was right?

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago

Oh wow I didn't realize he repeated 'developers, developers, ...' 666 times on that event.

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I CAN FINALLY GO TO HELL! 🔥

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 12 points 5 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] moonleay@feddit.de 11 points 5 months ago

now we can merge the bsd source tree

[-] rem26_art@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

🤘LETS GOOOOO🤘

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
842 points (98.7% liked)

Linux

44870 readers
1137 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS