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Puppy Linux – A Collection of Multiple Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 12:00
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First of all, let me say that I am a big fan of Puppy Linux. The reason for this is simple: Puppy and its multiple variations with support for application packages from bases ranging

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AMD Continues With MCE/SMCA Linux Driver Changes Ahead Of Zen 4 CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 07:19
This year AMD engineers working on hardware enablement for Linux have been busy with EDAC driver improvements like RDDR5 and LRDDR5 handling, AMD Scalable Machine Check Architecture (SMCA) additions for "future" CPUs, and the various other areas outside of the error detection and correction field. Today though is a new patch series back in that hardware error handling space with new SMCA code...

Sony Begins Landing PlayStation 5 Support In The Upstream LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 02:55
Similar to Sony contributing PlayStation 4 compiler support in LLVM with Clang being their preferred code compiler, Sony has now begun upstreaming PlayStation 5 (PS5) support in the open-source LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

Git 2.36 Released With --remerge-diff Option, More Control Over Fsync

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 02:26
Git 2.36 is out as the newest feature release to this widely-used, open-source distributed revision control system...

SDL2 Reverts Its Wayland Preference - Goes Back To X11 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 00:26
Back in January was the change pushed into SDL2 Git where the library prefers Wayland by default where available rather than defaulting to using X11 support. However, pushed today into SDL2 is a revert on that earlier change due to Wayland issues that the developers are more comfortable sticking to X11/XWayland by default until various Wayland problems are addressed...

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