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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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A lot of the time it obviously takes a little while for userland tools to catch up and for distros to include both the new kernel and userland tools for it into their latest versions but once that is done average users certainly do notice differences. Literally all the features that are talked about a lot like BPF or io_uring or all the features that make containers possible were introduced in a kernel release at some point.