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How to Change and Reset Forgotten Root Password in RHEL 9

Tecmint - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:38
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While installation of RHEL 9, the installer recommends we choose a complex password and while making the password complex enough, the chances of forgetting our password are quite high. And things get even more

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Apple M2 Enablement For Linux Begins With Good Progress

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 07:45
Hector Martin who has been leading the Asahi Linux effort for bringing up Linux on Apple Silicon recently received his new 2022 MacBook Pro 13-inch to begin porting Linux to Apple's new M2 SoC. While only started this week, he's already making significant progress. Fortunately, much of the existing M1-written Linux code can work for the M2 but some new drivers will need to be written before the new M2 Macs are fully usable on Linux...

Thunderbird 102 Released With Big Improvements To This Leading Open-Source Mail Client

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 07:38
After what has felt like years of neglect and little progress in advancing this open-source mail/communications client, Thunderbird 102 is out today with some shiny new features and a lot of UI refinements...

AMD GPUOpen Working On A New "gpurt" Open-Source Project

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 03:00
AMD's GPUOpen team quietly setup a new GitHub repository for "gpurt", presumably a new ray-tracing related software effort...

Arm Cortex-X3 + Cortex-A715 Announced As Second-Gen Armv9 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 01:46
Arm today announced their second-generation Armv9 CPU designs with the Cortex-X3 and Cortex-A715. Arm also refreshed the Cortex-A510 to allow for more cores and a power reduction...

Vim 9.0 Released With New Vim9 Script For 10~100x Execution Speed

Phoronix - Wed, 06/29/2022 - 01:32
Vim 9.0 is out as the first major update in two years for this popular text editor. With Vim 9.0 comes the Vim9 scripting language that offers significantly better performance...

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