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How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in Debian 10

Tecmint - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 14:22
In this brief tutorial, you will learn how to reset a forgotten root password in a Debian 10 system. This will help you regain the ability to log in as the root user and...

A message from Paul Cormier: Red Hat is here to help

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 12:00

We are living, and working, through a time of great uncertainty. At a time like this, I’ve found it helpful to remember our values and what's important. What's important to Red Hat is our commitment to our people, our customers and our communities.

LLVM's Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Might Be Back On Track For Merging Soon

Phoronix - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 07:43
Since the "f18" open-source Fortran compiler front-end was approved last year for merging as the newest LLVM sub-project and using the Flang name, there have been a number of false starts in getting the code merged. This year alone Flang had multiple delays and cancelled merge plans as the developers worked to get the code ready for upstream. Now though it looks like it could be ready to cross that long sought after milestone for having an in-tree Fortran front-end...

Canonical Contributing Upstream Improvements To Plymouth Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 04:38
One of the immediate differences Ubuntu 20.04 desktop/laptop users will notice when booting in UEFI mode is the boot splash screen improvements thanks to leveraging Red Hat's work on providing a flicker-free boot experience and pulling in the UEFI BGRT system/motherboard logo during the boot process to provide a more transitive experience. Canonical in turn is working on pushing some of their improvements back into upstream Plymouth...

Intel P-State Driver Shifting To "Schedutil" Governor Default With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 01:40
On top of all the other changes in Linux 5.7 so far, a secondary set of power management updates were sent in today for this next version of the kernel and includes now using the Schedutil governor by default for Intel P-State and Arm big.LITTLE systems...

AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1

Phoronix - Tue, 04/07/2020 - 00:08
One month ago to the day I was writing about OpenGL threading improvements for Mesa 20.1 and since then more "GLTHREAD" work has materialized and successfully landed for improving the Mesa OpenGL driver performance...

Linux 5.7 Changes So Far: New exFAT Driver, Tiger Lake Graphics By Default, Apple Fast Charge, Etc

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2020 - 23:00
We are now one week through the two week long Linux 5.7 kernel merge window where new/improved functionality is introduced. Here is a look at the changes so far for Linux 5.7...

C-SKY Architecture Gets Fix For Its Own Speculative Execution Bug In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2020 - 21:47
C-SKY is a a Chinese 32-bit CPU architecture intended for low-power devices from media boxes / DVRs to printers and other consumer electronics. C-SKY has also worked its way into a ~$6 development board. With its updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel are various additions to this maturing architecture support along with a speculative execution fix...

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