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This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.

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[–] ademir 146 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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!

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 117 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We need a petition to make this LTS.

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 96 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 92 points 11 months ago

FreeBSD is now obsolete

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 60 points 11 months ago

Daemons Unleashed

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 59 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

Time to make the switch to TempleOS.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

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

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

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 47 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 91 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pocketman_stuck 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pocketman_stuck 9 points 11 months ago
[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, metal as fuck WiFi regressions!

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[–] soupcat@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 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 πŸ˜‚.

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.

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[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 36 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I'm not gonna update to any other kernel

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the kernel that lives across the street

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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The kernel I didn’t even know I needed

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell me why I should upgrade from my Linux 4.20 kernel

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[–] zjaume@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Satanic Edition's favourite kernel.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

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

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

Finally, our time has come

[–] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"The number of the beast!!"

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[–] kellyaster@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago
[–] root@aussie.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

does this mean steve ballmer was right?

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I CAN FINALLY GO TO HELL! πŸ”₯

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

now we can merge the bsd source tree

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

"It's all for you daemon!"

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