Kernel Version 6.12 - comes with a called real-time support - whats about this!?

good day dear friends - hello at all on the justlinux-forum

well Linus Torvalds announced yesterday the Linux kernel 6.12: This is now generally available.

The new kernel version has some interesting new features to offer - and all sounds pretty exciting. :)
In addition to the usual updates to support current and future CPUs and GPUs, two new features stand out.

the new kernel - it Comes with a so called real-time support

well: what can we expect from that - what can we do now !?

What benefits do we have - and what advantages.

note: i have heard that the devs worked allmost two decades to get the Real-Time-Thing done..

so, whats the fuzz!?`


Look forward to hear from you

:)

For most people real time isn't going to matter. Games could benefit.
Basic linux is a time sharing os where there is a scheduler to coordinate resources between applications etc. Critical events need to happen in a fixed time period or responded to in a certain time period. Embedded applications like a drone flight control software would benefit with real time.

Yeah, the real-time support in 6.12 is a big deal technically, even if most desktop users won't notice a huge change. It s mainly about reducing latency and making sure critical tasks are handled within strict timing windows. Its especially useful for embedded systems, industrial controls, audio processing, or anything where timing matters. For regular browsing, coding, and gaming, it won't change much day to day, but it's a huge step for systems that need guaranteed responsiveness.

hi there - many thanks for the reply - for your input and all that great explanations.
i am really really glad to be part of this forum

Greetingsn:)

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Originally Posted by kathlinx

Yeah, the real-time support in 6.12 is a big deal technically, even if most desktop users won't notice a huge change. It s mainly about reducing latency and making sure critical tasks are handled within strict timing windows. Its especially useful for embedded systems, industrial controls, audio processing, or anything where timing matters. For regular browsing, coding, and gaming, it won't change much day to day, but it's a huge step for systems that need guaranteed responsiveness.

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Dear Kathlinx..

Gemini AI told me that the new kernel advancements mostly address new evolutions of hardware in the newer machines.. It's as if the base to computer-world believes 'everyone has the latest machines'.. Many of us are running our older machines, or our family handmedown freebie machines..I tried a newer kernel in a slightly older machine.. It destroy the operation of the OS.. I had to reinstall the OS new and clean.. Many of us using notebooks are running older models that aren't compatible with some of the new software evolutions.. Before you upgrade the kernel in an older machine do some research in google on it to know that the upgrade is compatible with your model of machine and OS before destroying the OS with a silly software experiment..

Latency and slow timing are crimes in the users view, given that extreme cocaino-usage, toxic foods, massive pollution factors, and cellphone radiation has melted away humanity's spirits and minds, and has much of devolved humanity into mindless alien chimps living like wild animals... Zero latency and speed is what the user demands these days.. They don't want to wait for anything.. Waiting is a serious offense and crime to them, but they'll sit playing cartoon video games, or watching teevee for hours and hours, believing they are living their lives as life intended.. They need everything to be instant, is why fast cars, fast foods, new phones, and new games are a big hit for them.. That's all they've got left of living life.. Essentially they died inside.. That's the speed-game the cyber demons are playing with.. They find ways to speed-up things a little bit, then use that as bait to entice the user to install their huge underlying package of malware, spyware, and trojans... Nearly every new software these days is designed to steal peoples private data.. It's a kind of a feeding-frenzy war attached to china's, putin's, and religion's precious nazi greed-biased WW3 to take over the world for their mummies... It's anunnaki planet-invader alien t.rex's meticulously destroying humanity for fun and sport...

"For regular browsing, coding, and gaming, it won't change much day to day".. So the Linux user should ignore all the bs about latency and speed, and be content with what they've got.. Pushing for speed in junk machines breaks things...

If someone wants speed with an old notebook, buy the best new fastest hard drive available.. But do so research the new hard drives in google, so you don't buy a useless one full of malware made in chiner...

techradar.com/pro/fastest-hard-drives-of-year

Holy crap! It's a 20-terabyte hard drive.. Didn't know hard drives were so high-capacity... Don't need it, all my saved data fits in two 1-tera hd's...

In topic Kernel change for old machines and older Linux OS's: I just discovered that changing the Linux Mint Mate 20.3 Kernel to Kernel 5.15 wrecks the OS, but changing it to Kernel 5.7 speeds up the OS.. Problem is that newest kernels are build for the newer hardware and software.. They don't work on the old things...