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GCC 10 Adds ARMv8.6-A Targeting, BFloat16 + i8MM Options

Phoronix - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 14:57
Building on earlier GCC commits for Arm's BFloat16 (BF16) support and other new extensions, a late change landing for GCC 10 is the command line options for targeting the ARMv8.6-A architecture and optionally toggling i8mm and BF16 extensions...

How to Fix Git Always Asking For User Credentials For HTTP(S) Authentication

Tecmint - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 14:53
To access or work with a remote Git repository, you can either use SSH or HTTP(S) protocols; with the former, when it comes to private repositories, you can simply configure SSH keys without a...

Fedy – Install Third-Party Software in Fedora

Tecmint - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 13:28
Fedy (previously called as Fedora Utils) is a post-installation script written in bash, especially for Fedora. It is released under GNU General Public License. Fedy aims at providing a standard Fedora installation with additional...

Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code

Phoronix - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 13:06
Mesa3D as principally the collection of Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is up to 2,996,270 lines of code (and documentation / associated scripts) within its Git tree! That should put it over the three million mark very soon while the Git activity was up by about 20% in 2019...

Fedora 32 Planning To Make Use Of systemd's sysusers.d For Declaring New Users

Phoronix - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 08:15
Fedora 32 is likely to make use of systemd's sysusers.d functionality for packages declaring new system users as part of the package installation process. This change proposal is being led by Red Hat's Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek of their systemd team...

Dell Finally Rolls Out XPS 13 Developer Edition With Ice Lake, Fingerprint Reader

Phoronix - Fri, 01/03/2020 - 00:04
Up to now the most recent Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux has been using Comet Lake processors while now the 10th Generation XPS 13 Developer Edition has been announced with Ice Lake processors...

Coreboot Seeing Tigerlake + Jasperlake Activity, Experimental Razer Icelake Laptop Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/02/2020 - 22:14
Building upon Coreboot Icelake support that has been coming together recently is now the initial Intel support for Jasperlake and Tigerlake. Additionally, when it comes to the Icelake support, there is experimental/work-in-progress support for the Icelake-powered Razer Blade Stealth laptop...

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