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How to Find a Hard Disk Serial Number in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 12/26/2023 - 14:13
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When managing your Linux system, it’s crucial to keep track of your hard disk or storage devices, and one key piece of information is the

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Doxygen 1.10 Documentation Generator Released With Many Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 22:12
Another open-source project celebrating Christmas Day with a new feature release is Doxygen, the open-source documentation generator and static analysis tool that is widely used by many different open-source projects and supported by numerous programming languages for generating code documentation...

Trying Out Meteor Lake's Arc Graphics With The New Intel Xe Driver Was A Bust

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 19:17
With Linux 6.8 set to introduce the new Intel Xe experimental kernel graphics driver early next year, last week I ran some Xe vs. i915 driver benchmarks on various Intel Arc Graphics discrete GPUs. There's still room for bettering the performance but a nice initial entry into the kernel and easy to test out. For some Christmas weekend benchmarking I was curious to see how well the Xe kernel driver would work on the integrated graphics side with the new Meteor Lake processors...

Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 18:52
Along with all of the other ongoing Intel Arrow Lake processor/platform enablement, the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel will have the sound driver support ready for landing...

Ruby 3.3 Released With New "Prism" Parser & Pure-Ruby JIT Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 18:41
Out for Christmas is Ruby 3.3 as a big update to this dynamic open-source programming language. With Ruby 3.3 the Prism parser is added as well as a new pure-Ruby just-in-time (JIT) compiler...

How to Disable Bluetooth at Linux Startup

Tecmint - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 15:02
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In the Linux world, users like to customize their systems for better performance and security. One way to do this is by tweaking the startup

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How to Create a Virtual Machine in Proxmox

Tecmint - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 13:13
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In the previous tutorial, we demonstrated step-by-step how to install Proxmox on a Debian 12 system. In this second part, we will go a step

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Happy Holidays & A Year End Phoronix Premium Special

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 22:09
Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to those celebrating any end-of-year holidays. In case you missed last month's cyber week special for a discounted rate on going ad-free, native dark mode, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, it's back for Christmas week...

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