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The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice

Phoronix - Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:32
The ODF 1.3 Open Document Format specification was approved by the OASIS Committee at the start of the year and now as we approach the end of the year The Document Foundation is hoping to see ODF 1.3 support completed soon for this leading open-source office suite...

System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 23:00
The System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3900 series is already a beast, but now this Linux PC vendor has managed to outdo themselves once again with the Thelio Mega...

Firefox 82 Released With Performance Improvements, Video Playback Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 22:40
Firefox 82.0 is now available as the latest release of Mozilla's web browser that continues on their expedited release cycles...

Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 22:00
The Xen virtualization work for the Linux 5.10 kernel revolves around security...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Released With Various Game Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 18:21
AMD has issued their first open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the quarter with AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1...

XFS Lands More Code For Linux 5.10 - "Even More Monumental"

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:52
Last week saw the XFS file-system with Linux 5.10 support timestamps until the year 2486 rather than year 2038 and other improvements too. This week a second round of XFS work has landed for Linux 5.10...

Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:34
It was just two weeks ago that the Qt 6.0 Alpha released, but in aiming to get the release back on schedule, the beta is already shipping today...

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