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LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 13:58
Ahead of the official release expected in early August, the second release candidate of LibreOffice 7.0 is now available for testing...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:02
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost hardware has another feature tacked on as of Friday night...

Wine 5.13 Released - Fixes 15 Year Old Bug To Support Windows NT INI Files To Registry Re-Mapping

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 06:03
Wine is out with its latest bi-weekly development summer blend for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2020 - 01:04
The Monado open-source OpenXR runtime for AR/VR headsets is making progress on integrating open-source positional tracking capabilities...

I've Been Running The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U + Ubuntu 20.04 As My Main System

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 22:08
For about one and a half months now I have been using the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U as my main laptop paired with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It's been working out very well for not even being the top-of-the-line AMD Renoir SKU. Here is some additional commentary for those thinking about one of the new AMD laptops with Linux use...

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