Linux 5.7: the new wonder is revealed

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El Linux kernel 5.7 is here, one of the latest wonders in terms of free kernel releases. If you want it, you will have to wait for it to be available in the repos of your favorite distro and for it to be installed automatically with the update system, or you can also download, configure, compile and install it on your own from kernel.org.

This Linux 5.7 kernel comes with great news and new featuresFrom Apple's fast charge to official drivers for Intel Tiger Lake graphics. If you want to know everything that this nucleus hides, I encourage you to continue reading ...

The following should be highlighted features that attract more attention in this Linux 5.7 release:

  • Inclusion of drivers for 12th Gen Intel Tiger Lake integrated graphics.
  • Support for AMD Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" mobile graphics.
  • New driver for Samsung exFAT file systems that replaces the previous one. That makes Linux 5.7's exFAT support excellent.
  • Zstd compression support for the F2FS.
  • Driver for fast USB charging for Apple devices.
  • Improvements in support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 line of SoCs, in addition to other improvements for ARM-based devices such as the Pine Tab and Pinebook Pro.
  • Use of the Schedutil governor for the Intel P-State, improving the efficiency for the management of the CPU cores.
  • Performance improvements for / dev, SELinux, and other components.

If that seems little to you, a Linux kernel patch is being discussed for version 5.7 that could be used to improve the performance of native Microsoft Windows games when using Wine. A Collabora developer has been the one who has generated this new discussion to help the gaming world through Wine.

The result would be improved compatibility and reduced performance impact for many modern video games that have to do with syscalls or system calls who do this kind of software.

More information about the patch here.

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