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Convenient Intel PPIN Reporting To Come With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 21:00
With the Linux 5.18 kernel coming later this year, the Intel Protected Processor Inventory Number (PPIN) will be more easily exposed for their server processors...

Arch Linux Could Use Some Help With Toolchain Maintenance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 18:30
While Arch Linux is known to be at the forefront of rolling-release Linux distributions, when it comes to its compiler toolchain the packages have fallen behind over the past year...

Less Than 10% Of Firefox Users On Linux Are Running Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 17:00
Thanks to Mozilla's Telemetry capabilities, there is some interesting insight to how many Linux desktop users are still relying on an X.Org (X11) Server without Wayland...

Intel Graphics System Controller Support Getting Buttoned Up For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 16:00
While much of the Intel DG2/Alchemist open-source driver support has already been upstreamed into the Linux kernel, Mesa for OpenGL and Vulkan, and related components like IGC and Compute-Runtime, there are various bits still pending ahead of the Intel Arc graphics cards set to make their debut in the next few months. One of those pieces still working their way upstream is enabling the GSC block, the Graphics System Controller...

Accumulating into lists in Java and Groovy

opensource.com - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 16:00

In my last article, I reviewed some differences between creating and initializing lists in Groovy and doing the same thing in Java. I showed that Groovy has a straightforward and compact syntax for setting up lists compared to the steps necessary in Java.


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