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This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago (3 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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a petition to make this LTS.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 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

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago

FreeBSD is now obsolete

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

Daemons Unleashed

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Time to make the switch to TempleOS.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, metal as fuck WiFi regressions!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm not gonna update to any other kernel

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the kernel that lives across the street

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The kernel I didn’t even know I needed

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me why I should upgrade from my Linux 4.20 kernel

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Satanic Edition's favourite kernel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Finally, our time has come

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The number of the beast!!"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, crap! I'm already on 6.7.0-rc4 v.v Not gonna accept a lower number just to hail Satan a little extra πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Besides, 6.7 might have something neat in it. I'm not weird, you're weird!

~...~ ~I~ ~use~ ~Arch~ ~and/or~ ~Gentoo~ ~bytheway~ <.<

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

does this mean steve ballmer was right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I CAN FINALLY GO TO HELL! πŸ”₯

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

now we can merge the bsd source tree

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"It's all for you daemon!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

🀘LETS GOOOOO🀘

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