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A Prominent, Longtime Dell Linux Engineer Recently Joined AMD's Linux Team

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 21:30
Here should hopefully be a great indication about AMD's Linux efforts moving forward with one of their recent and exciting hires at the company...

Intel Lands Initial Code For Mesh Shaders Within Mesa

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 19:00
In preparation for the support within their Vulkan driver, the Intel-led effort for preparing mesh shader support within Mesa's NIR and SPIR-V code has now been merged...

Wine-Staging 6.16 Implements Two More D3DX Functions To Help Some Windows Games

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 17:44
It's been a relatively quiet summer in the Wine-Staging world with not many new patches surfacing for testing/experimental purposes for this more bleeding edge version of Wine. However, with Wine-Staging 6.16 there are at least some new patches now to talk about...

KDE Plasma 5.23 Will Be Another Exciting Release With Many Improvements Abound

Phoronix - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 17:32
The Plasma 5.23 desktop release is looking like it will be quite an eventful milestone while KDE developers are finishing August strong with many improvements and fixes across their desktop stack...

Parse command-line options in Groovy

opensource.com - Sat, 08/28/2021 - 15:00

A recent article provided an introduction to parsing command-line options in Java. Because I really like Groovy, and because Groovy is well suited for scripting, and because it's fun to compare Java and Groovy solutions, I decided to paraphrase Seth's article, but using Groovy.


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