Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim to Ship with the Linux 6.8 Kernel

phoronix.com

"According to Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 6.8 looks to be a small release that promises mostly updated drivers for graphics and networking, but also filesystem updates, mostly for bcachefs, XFS, Btrfs, and VFS, as well as architecture, tooling, mm, networking, core kernel, and documentation updates."

Apparently 6.8 is primarily updates. Not sure why the autor didn't add any inforation on what he/she is looking forward too

The current LTS ships Linux 5.17. So rolling up the kernel changes since 5.17 and not just 6.7 -> 6.8 would probably be a little much. Is it not enough that he's happy for the next LTS to be one step more modern than previously expected?

It doesn't really add value if you don't know, from top of your head, what the big differences are.

And apparently he took the time to write about it, so it wouldn't be hard for him t explain it

libstdc++ should be statically linked to all software using it.

libgcc should be statically linked to all software, and the glibc modified to dynamically load a stripped-down (and renamed) shared libgcc for pthread_cancel support.

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