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LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 22:03
The LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS are now available for testing of this leading open-source office suite...

Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 21:46
The year began with Godot 4.0 making its much anticipated debut and now this open-source game engine project is ending out 2023 with Godot 4.2 as the second revision to the Godot 4.x engine...

Holiday Shopping 2023: FSF Endorses 802.11n WiFi, Opteron Boards & USB To Parallel Printer Cable

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 18:10
The Free Software Foundation this week published their 2023 holiday shopping guide for services and products that comply with their pure free software standards, such as computer hardware devices that "respect your freedom" regardless of hardware age...

Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:00
Immediately after the Bcachefs file-system was upstreamed into the Linux 6.7 kernel I began running some benchmarks on this new copy-on-write file-system. Shortly thereafter some scalability improvements and disabling a debug option by default were merged. So with the Bcachefs work for Linux 6.7 settling down the past few weeks, here's a fresh look at how Bcachefs is performing against the likes of EXT4, XFS, F2FS, and Btrfs.

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