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GNU Linux-Libre 5.11 Kernel Is Out for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

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Marius Nestor
Feb 16, 2021

Based on the recently released Linux 5.11 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 5.11 kernel is now available for the GNU/Linux community seeking 100% freedom for their PCs with deblobbed drivers, but featuring the same new features and improvements as the upstream kernel release.

These include support for AMD’s “Van Gogh” and “Dimgrey Cavefish” GPUs in the AMDGPU driver, support for Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions), support for task-local storage in the BPF subsystem, suspend-to-idle support in user-mode, and a new “big block” mode in the virtio-mem mechanism.
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