Hmm… I just installed manjaro a few days ago and it claims to be running 6.5 already. I guess they assume the preferred path is to run the RC. Wonder how much faster my machine will get.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Some security modules that depend on cpu features, the example is camellia_aesni_avx_x86_64, failed to load and caused the performance regression. So you'd be affected if you use something like that.
An interesting point here is that AES-NI can be used to accelerate a host of things other than AES. In this case, it's because the S-box can take advantage of the AES S-Box (SubBytes) instruction because of affine isomorphism or something: https://github.com/jkivilin/camellia-simd-aesni; https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sha....
Similar acceleration has been done with SM4, the Chinese analogue of AES. https://github.com/mjosaarinen/sm4ni
Maybe they start out on an rc after install because new install might equal new hardware?
Me too. Slow Sunday morning, so curiosity got the best of me, to a point, so I went checking.
But I couldn't figure out how to check the latest available kernel package on Manjaro while not running it. The software.manjaro.org page is terrible and made my laptop attempt to fly away.
Anyway, there's no "linux" on the search page, and they don't seem to have a "linux" (all by itself) package like Arch does. Tried linux-kernel, linux-stable, no dice.
Searching on Google, I've found a link to the "linux61-headers" package: https://software.manjaro.org/package/linux61-headers.
So I've tried to change the URL. linux66-headers sends me to the apps list (so I guess that means there's no such page?). linux65-headers exists in the form of 6.5.0rc5 (is there a good reason why text isn't selectable on the site?!). linux64-headers also exists as version 6.4.9.
It should be funny to send unsuspecting people on the latest RC while not having the latest stable. My Arch has been running 6.4.12 for the last two days, IIRC.
I don't have eggs in those baskets so don't take my message as advertisement, but i repeatedly heard from various people Manjaro was not that serious/reliable and that EndeavourOS was much more pleasant and stable. Anyone has experience with this?
I probably wouldn't pick Manjaro today, but I will say that I've been running Manjaro on a little home server for over two years and it's been completely rock solid.
When installing I recall it asking me to choose which backing package to use when installing the linux package and since Architect is curses based, that was through pacman and it didn’t indicate in any way that linux-65 was pre RC. So I’m not sure what the default Manjaro installer did, but I either pacman didn’t make it clear or I simply overlooked that it was pre RC.
Overall I was quite surprised at how difficult it was to install Manjaro. Significantly worse experience than Arch because the installer kept crashing and wouldn’t work.