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LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 21:47
With just about one month to go until the official release, the first release candidate is out today of the LibreOffice 7.0 open-source, cross-platform office suite software...

H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 21:14
The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard is now firmed up as H.266 as the successor to H.265/HEVC...

LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 18:47
It was just a few days ago that the LLVMpipe OpenGL software rasterizer within Mesa finally achieved OpenGL 4.0 support while today it has crossed both OpenGL 4.1 and 4.2 milestones...

GCC Compiler Support Posted For Intel AMX

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 18:40
Building upon Intel working on GNU toolchain support for AMX, the newly-detailed Advanced Matrix Extensions being introduced next year with "Sapphire Rapids" Xeon CPUs, the GCC compiler support has been sent out in patch form...

A guide to Terraform for Kubernetes beginners

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:02

When I build infrastructure, I do it as code. The movement toward infrastructure as code means that every change is visible, whether it's through configuration management files or full-blown GitOps.


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Set up Vim as your Rust IDE

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:01

The Rust programming language is designed to implement systems programming with safe concurrency and high memory performance in a way that feels familiar to C++ developers. It's also one of the most loved programming languages in Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer Survey.


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9 open source test-automation frameworks

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:00

A test-automation framework is a set of best practices, common tools, and libraries that help quality-assurance testers assess the functionality, security, usability, and accessibility of multiple web and mobile applications. In a "quick-click" digital world, we're accustomed to fulfilling our needs in a jiffy. This is one reason why the software market is flooded with hundreds of test-automation frameworks.


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