Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews:If you are a Windows user, and want a really great computer, you should consider Microsoft’s Surface line. Not only do they serve as wonderful tablets, but with the keyboard attachment, they can be solid laptops too. While many Linux users dislike Microsoft, some of them undoubtedly envy Windows hardware. While it is possible to run Linux distros on some Surface tablets, not everything will work flawlessly. Today, release candidate 1 of Linux Kernel 4.8 is announced, and it seems a particularly interesting driver has been added — the Surface 3 touchscreen controller. “This seems to be building up to be one of the bigger releases lately, but let’s see how it all ends up. The merge window has been fairly normal, although the patch itself looks somewhat unusual: over 20 percent of the patch is documentation updates, due to conversion of the drm and media documentation from docbook to the Sphinx doc format. There are other doc updates, but that’s the big bulk of it, ” says Linus Torvalds, Linux creator. Will Microsoft’s lower-priced (starting at $499) hybrid computer become the ultimate mobile Linux machine? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux Kernel 4.8 Adds Microsoft Surface 3 Support
