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5 surprising things you can do with LibreOffice from the command line

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:02

LibreOffice has all the productivity features you'd want from an office software suite, making it a popular open source alternative to Microsoft Office or Google Suite. One of LibreOffice's powers is the ability to operate from the command line. For example, Seth Kenlon recently explained how he uses a global command-line option to convert multiple files from DOCX to EPUB with LibreOffice. His article inspired me to share some other LibreOffice command-line tips and tricks.


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5 useful Moodle plugins to engage students

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:01

A good e-learning platform is important for education all over the world. Teachers need a way to hold classes, students need a friendly user interface to facilitate learning, and administrators need a way to monitor the educational system's effectiveness.

Moodle is an open source software package that allows you to create a private website with interactive online courses. It's helping people gather virtually, teach and learn from one another, and stay organized while doing it.


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Build a printer UI for Raspberry Pi with XML and Java

opensource.com - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 16:00

Creating a GUI from scratch is a very time consuming process, dealing with all the positions and alignments in hard code can be really tough for some programmers. In this article, I demonstrate how to speed up this process using XML.


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hipSYCL Sees Work-In-Progress Support For Intel oneAPI Level Zero Backend

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 13:00
hipSYCL, the innovative implementation of Khronos' SYCL for targeting CPUs and GPUs by integrating with existing toolchains, is seeing work on supporting Intel oneAPI Level Zero for running directly off Intel graphics hardware...

hipSYCL Sees Work-In-Progress Support For Intel oneAPI Level Zero Backend

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 13:00
hipSYCL, the innovative implementation of Khronos' SYCL for targeting CPUs and GPUs by integrating with existing toolchains, is seeing work on supporting Intel oneAPI Level Zero for running directly off Intel graphics hardware...

Even In 2021, Intel Squeezes Some Very Nice Performance Gains Out Of Their OpenGL Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 07:33
While it's 2021 and many modern Linux gaming and other workloads are focusing on the Vulkan API, Intel isn't letting up in their aggressive optimizations to their open-source "Iris" OpenGL Gallium3D driver for Linux systems. With the latest Mesa 21.1 code today there is a set of patches providing up to 17% better performance in some games while other OpenGL software is generally a few percent faster at least. In some micro-benchmarks it can be more than 50% faster...

Even In 2021, Intel Squeezes Some Very Nice Performance Gains Out Of Their OpenGL Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 07:33
While it's 2021 and many modern Linux gaming and other workloads are focusing on the Vulkan API, Intel isn't letting up in their aggressive optimizations to their open-source "Iris" OpenGL Gallium3D driver for Linux systems. With the latest Mesa 21.1 code today there is a set of patches providing up to 17% better performance in some games while other OpenGL software is generally a few percent faster at least. In some micro-benchmarks it can be more than 50% faster...

Apple M1 Patches For The Linux Kernel Sent Out A Third Time

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 06:26
Hector Martin, who has been working on the crowd-funded effort to bring Linux up on the Apple M1 SoC and the modern Apple devices using that in-house silicon, has sent out the third iteration of his kernel patches...

Apple M1 Patches For The Linux Kernel Sent Out A Third Time

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 06:26
Hector Martin, who has been working on the crowd-funded effort to bring Linux up on the Apple M1 SoC and the modern Apple devices using that in-house silicon, has sent out the third iteration of his kernel patches...

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