GNU Linux-libre 4.11 Kernel Officially Available for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom

GNU Linux-libre, a non-profit organization chartered to develop and promote a deblobbed, libre Linux kernel for GNU/Linux distributions, announced the official availability of the GNU Linux-libre 4.11-gnu kernel.

The GNU Linux-libre 4.11-gnu kernel is, of course, based on the recently released Linux 4.11 kernel, which introduces initial support for Intel Gemini Lake SoCs, better power management the AMDGPU open-source graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, and journaling support for the device-mapper RAID 4/5/6 implementation.

Linux kernel 4.11 also adds support for OPAL drives, support for the SMC-R (Shared Memory Communications-RDMA) protocol, an all new statx() system call to replace stat(2), persistent scrollback buffers for VGA consoles, support for... (read more)

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