Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

Admittedly, I haven't build kernels since the early 2000s, but this comment is somewhat odd to people who used Linux in the 1990s, for who make config/menuconfig/oldconfig ; make build -jN ; make modules_install ; make install was a common occurence.

I even had a competition with a fellow Linux-using friend who could make the kernel build the fastest (typically accomplished by disabling as much functionality as possible), while still booting into a functional system with X11 and all hardware working.

In all seriousness though, I think building your own kernel is still very straightforward and it's mostly constrained to /boot and /lib/modules, so you don't pollute your machine much by doing it outside your package manager.

You can upgrade trixie from 6.12 to 7.0 using backports. Dunno when 7.2 will be available but you don’t necessarily have to wait that long.

Maybe you should take a look at release notes for Linux 6.1 to 6.12 (or earlier?) :) There is always a lot of candy there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history#Releases_6.x.y:~:text=6%2E1

From a quick look around:

• 6.3 - Big Performance Improvement for EXT4
• 6.4 - Further Rust up-streaming to support the first Rust drivers
• 6.6 - The new EEVDF process scheduler was merged. It aims to replace the CFS scheduler.