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The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS
Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024.
Linux 6.12 features are aplenty on their own right with the changes compared to the prior v6.11, but even more significant for those sticking to annual LTS kernel versions... On the hardware side there is Intel Xe2 graphics support, AMD RDNA4 enablement, a lot of AMD Zen 5 platform enablement, improvements for the latest Intel desktop/server/laptop hardware as well as prepping for Panther Lake and Clearwater forest, and much more... Far too much to easily summarize in a concise manner. The System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X was running with 128GB of RAM, Radeon graphics, and tested on an Ubuntu 24.04 base.
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