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5 collaboration tips for using an open source alternative to Google Docs

opensource.com - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 16:00

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted open source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs for collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in real time.

The following are the five most important ways ONLYOFFICE Docs helps organize my collaborative work.


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X.Org Server 1.20.10 Allows For Larger Number Of Input Devices, Present Extension Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 13:13
Following Tuesday's disclosure of more X.Org Server security bugs, X.Org Server 1.20.10 was released that provides those input fixes plus a number of other patches that have been back-ported and accumulated in the 1.20 series...

Helping standardize machine learning: Red Hat joins MLCommons as founding member

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 13:00

Red Hat is excited to announce that we have joined MLCommons, an open engineering consortium that curates the MLPerf benchmarking suite, as a founding member. MLCommons will be focusing on three important pillars to support the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) community: benchmarks, data sets, and best practices.

The Best RedHat-based Linux Distributions

Tecmint - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:31

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a hugely popular enterprise-level operating system that supports a diverse range of open-source technologies such as Ansible automation, Hybrid Cloud, virtualization, and containerization. In this guide, we highlight some

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NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 05:55
NVIDIA is working on allowing their proprietary driver to support passing buffers as DMA-BUF. In turn this should allow for better supporting their proprietary driver on Wayland compared to the EGLStreams mess...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver Support For Xe HP As "Gen12.5"

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 04:18
Xe HP is Intel's discrete GPU aiming to compete against the latest-generation AMD and NVIDIA compute accelerators. Xe HP isn't scheduled to reach general availability until well into 2021 while now as they begin ramping up their sampling of Xe HP to potential customers, the Linux open-source driver support is preparing to roll-out...

SUSE Completes Its Acquisition Of Rancher Labs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/02/2020 - 01:28
Back in July SUSE announced its intention to acquire Rancher Labs. That deal has now closed for acquiring the Kubernetes focused cloud company...

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