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LibreOffice 7.3 Beta Released With More Improvements For Microsoft Office Files

Phoronix - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 21:30
The first beta of LibreOffice 7.3 is now available for testing as the next installment of this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

Linux 5.17 To Finally Enable Variable Rate Refresh For Intel Ice Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 19:08
An early batch of Intel kernel graphics driver feature updates intended for Linux 5.17 was sent out yesterday to DRM-Next for queuing until that next merge window opens around the start of the new year. Notable with this pull is Icelake "Gen11" graphics finally seeing variable rate refresh enabled!..

Tesseract 5.0 Released For This Leading Open-Source OCR Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 18:35
The long-awaited Tesseract 5.0 is now available as a big update to this leading open-source, optical character recognition (OCR) engine that via neural networks offers great accuracy and supports more than 100 languages for turning images of text into actual text...

NixOS 21.11 Released But Its Own Package Manager Is Left Behind Due To Regressions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 18:05
NixOS is an original Linux distribution built atop its own unique Nix package manager that is focused on being functional, reliable, and reproducible. The Nix package manager concept is great but somewhat ironic is the new NixOS 21.11 release not even shipping with the latest Nix package manager version due to known regressions...

Julia 1.7 Released With Improved Threading Capabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 17:47
Version 1.7 of the Julia programming language implementation is now available, the open-source high-performance language that is general purpose but especially popular for computational science and numerical analysis...

Edit audio on Linux with Audacity

opensource.com - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 16:00

The Audacity sound editor is one of those open source applications that filled a niche that seemingly nobody else realized existed. Initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University at a time when many people still thought computers were just for office and schoolwork, and you required special DSP peripherals for serious multimedia work. Audacity recognized that, occasionally, the average computer user needed to edit audio. The Audacity team has consistently provided an open source application for recording and cleaning up sound in the two decades since.


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