{"id":161,"date":"2016-01-13T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:26:00","slug":"f23-kernel-4-3-3-wheee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"F23 + Kernel 4.3.3 = WHEEE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;disclaimer&gt;Ok, this is truly a geek post, so if you aren&#8217;t into extreme geekiness, don&#8217;t bother with this one.&lt;\/disclaimer&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-166 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Screenshot from 2016-01-13 20-49-39\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\"><\/a>I <em>finally<\/em> have my hobby Linux laptop where I want it to be! <a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/2015\/12\/coming-out-of-the-deep-freeze\/\">When I bought my Dell 2-in-1 laptop<\/a>, I&#8217;d really wanted to run Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop environment. I&#8217;d been playing with Linux distributions for a while already and had settled on Fedora as my favorite. I like the dnf package manager and I like the fact that Fedora is reasonably current in terms of Linux kernel, hardware support, and the latest versions of most popular packages. Because the laptop has a touchscreen and can be used as a tablet with the keyboard folded away, I decided that I needed the GNOME desktop, which has reasonable (though not perfect) support for touch interfaces without a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Fedora wasn&#8217;t quite as up-to-date as I needed. My Dell Inspiron 13 2-in-1 has an&nbsp;Intel Skylake (6th-generation) processor and built-in graphics, which the open source Linux kernel (even the very-recent 4.2-series used by Fedora) didn&#8217;t support. Even with &#8220;preliminary hardware support&#8221; enabled in the Kernel, it frequently froze on my laptop. So for the first few months, I&#8217;ve been using Ubuntu 15.10 GNOME. (Apparently, the commercial sponsors of Ubuntu, Canonical, managed to include Skylake graphics support in their 4.2 Linux kernel, even though the open source version didn&#8217;t have it yet. Money talks, I guess!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Details_001.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-162 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Details_001.png\" alt=\"Details_001\" width=\"743\" height=\"561\"><\/a>Anyway, the Fedora team released an update yesterday that included version 4.3.3 of the Linux kernel, with enhanced (and enabled-by-default!) support for Skylake processors and graphics. So, today I decided to try it out. And it worked!<\/p>\n<p>So now I have a 2-in-1 laptop\/tablet with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13.3&#8243; 1080p (16:9) touch-enabled screen<\/li>\n<li>6th-generation Intel Skylake processor &amp; graphics<\/li>\n<li>8GB RAM and 128GB SSD<\/li>\n<li>Fedora 23 (up-to-date!)<\/li>\n<li>GNOME 3.18 (latest version!)<\/li>\n<li>Google Chrome (synced with all my other devices)<\/li>\n<li>1Password (synced with all of my devices, including a vault of passwords shared with my wife)<\/li>\n<li>OwnCloud storage (like Dropbox, but on my own server at home and accessible from anywhere on the Internet)<\/li>\n<li>Skype (with full audio &amp; video support)<\/li>\n<li>Steam (for games!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And aside from a bit of research &amp; experimentation, it was cheap, too.<\/p>\n<p>Whee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;disclaimer&gt;Ok, this is truly a geek post, so if you aren&#8217;t into extreme geekiness, don&#8217;t bother with this one.&lt;\/disclaimer&gt; I finally have my hobby Linux<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?p=161\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[31,7,51,12,6,5,30],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-computing","tag-dell","tag-diy","tag-fedora","tag-free-time","tag-hobbies","tag-linux","tag-user-interfaces"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39-768x432.png",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39-1024x576.png",1024,576,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",1536,864,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",1920,1080,false],"miteri-cp-520x400":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",520,293,false],"miteri-cp-450x450":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",450,253,false],"miteri-cp-700x700":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",700,394,false],"miteri-cp-800x500":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",800,450,false],"miteri-cp-1200x580":["https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-from-2016-01-13-20-49-39.png",1031,580,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"&lt;disclaimer&gt;Ok, this is truly a geek post, so if you aren&#8217;t into extreme geekiness, don&#8217;t bother with this one.&lt;\/disclaimer&gt; 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