Linus Torvalds announced Kernel 4.7 a few days ago and is now available on github and Kernel.org so far it's only available on Fedora from my understanding, and every other distro hasn't gotten it yet for whatever stability reasons.
You don't need new kernel every time Linus hits compile. The Fedora community are just masochists (i use Fedora).
Unless you have fun doing it then i don't stop you.
But you can just patch certain parts of your kernel like bugs and security.
If your old kernel still works and does what i must do don't recompile it. Just patch certain parts. I learned that from Slackware (a lovely distro <3).
I know that. I just wanted to play with it.
None of the changes apply to me, so I will wait until it's thoroughly tested.
I'm kind of a masochist but the delays are probably because things like gnome are suuuuuuper broken on the new kernel and I have no idea why. At least if you are using the new amd driver and the new amd silicon.
so you use Fedora Rawhide? :p
I couldn't use it. they sold it if you love restarting your OS every day 3-4 times. Then this is for you and i was like well i don\t hate myself that much.
But uch indeed you say a lot of stuff in gnome is broken but Gnome deserve his own topic.
According to the most recent video with the Server build he's been playing with Ubuntu.
last time i checked Wendell is all over the place. He has that many monitors for a reason :p
Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora are where I spend the most time. I really like Fedora these days, and Gnome on Ubuntu has been less than an awesome experience.
Debian is great, but the packages tend to be very old even on testing. Good for servers, not so good for desktops.
I was surprised the RX480 does not work at all on Ubuntu unless it is a totally 100% stock U 16.04 system.
Ubuntu has always been somewhat finnicky with GPU drivers. it's usually a hit and a miss.
I think lot of Linux distro's got that issue if not all open source distro's.
Has radeon/amdgpu and powermanagement regressions that should be fixed in 4.8. I would stick with 4.6.0, the power management issues affect people using certain laptop chipsets.
Sorry I dont' have much details, just read it multiple times in many different articles on Phoronix discussion.
May I ask what displeases you currently? - at the time I feel quite ok with it - it has been much much worse.
I've compiled the kernel on arch as well (the gentoo way, with all the hardware optimization and shit). Its working fine but redshift isnt working anymore but that might be because Im too dumb to build my own kernel (though I did manage to do it on gentoo!) Also @Kat this is beside the point but your gnome theme looks awesome, may I ask what theme that is?
Running it right now, no issues yet,
I'm using a theme called Arc-Theme Red. Though if you check on GNOME Themes the theme itself is broken on the site so you have to go on git get the source and compile it manually.
Also I'm not using GNOME but Budgie Desktop.
I actually dont thin 4.7 is in Fedora yet, we do have 4.8 though on rawhide! got to love those git snapshot kernels! 4.7 is in F25 and rawhide as well.
4.7 has some waiting updates that people want, skylake support, more amd support, so it seems to be one people want.
edit: you can get the rawhide kernels in F24 through the rawhide kernel nodebug repo
Been using it since it was available for Manjaro, I have noticed no problems so far, but I have only been using my laptop for watching videos since I can't really do to much else because of surgery.
Device is a ux303ub zenbook. using xfce
I find it somewhat ironic considering Arch doesn't have it available yet.
You guys are too cool. I'm on 4.2 on Fedora 23, and 4.4 Fedora 23 on my Laptop...
