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LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite

LibreOffice 7.1 should be released at the start of February while now the second to last release candidate is available for testing of this leading cross-platform, open-source office suite.

LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 is available for testing following nearly one hundred commits and 64 bug fixes since the prior release candidate.

Those wanting to test the latest release candidate for this leading Microsoft Office alternative can find the 7.1 RC2 downloads via the QA blog .

The third and final release candidate is expected next

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Mesa 21.0 Is Now Working With Haiku OS For Software OpenGL Rendering

BeOS-inspired Haiku OS can now run with Mesa 21.0 well using the latest development code.

A number of patches worked on for Haiku OS back for Mesa 20.x were freshened up and with some extra tweaking and code cleaning those patches have now been merged for Mesa 21.0. This includes factoring out a lot of the OpenGL legacy dispatch code and a lot of cleanups around the Softpipe driver handling.

With Mesa 21.0-devel as of today, it's at
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Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance

Alibaba developers released an updated version of their "blazing fast" lightweight deep learning framework MNN, or the Mobile Neural Network.

This deep learning framework that has been "battle-tested by business-critical use cases in Alibaba" continues working to exploit every bit of possible performance.

With the 1.1.1 release noting more optimizations for "speed up" as well as bug fixes, our MNN test profile for benchmarking with the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org was updated against the new version.




Indeed,

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Fedora 34 Approved To Enable Systemd-OOMD By Default For All Spins

The release of Fedora 34 this spring is now cleared to enable systemd-oomd by default for all spins in an effort to enhance the out-of-memory / memory pressure experience on Linux.

Systemd OOMD is currently an experimental feature of systemd based on Facebook code adapted for systemd to be used on both desktops and servers. Systemd-OOMD allows monitoring for resource contention and can kill opt-in processes when the memory/SWAP pressure is above a predefined threshold.

Plans were drafted last month for Fedora 34

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OpenAI's DALL-E turns weird text into weird images

In brief: OpenAI wants to create a general artificial intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity, and that includes being able to understand everyday concepts and blend them in creative ways. The company's latest AI models combine natural language processing with image recognition and show promising results towards that goal.

OpenAI is known for developing impressive AI models like GPT-2 and GPT-3, which are capable of writing believable fake news but can also become essential tools in detecting and filtering online misinformation and spam. Previously,

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LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE

LLVM has added support for PowerPC LE (32-bit) as its newest target.

While LLVM has supported the PowerPC architecture for years, to date it's been focused on the big endian support. Most PowerPC hardware supports both big and little endian modes and can be switched at run-time. While Linux and others tend to focus on PowerPC support in big endian mode, LLVM has added a PowerPC LE option.

Adding this 32-bit PowerPC Little Endian support to LLVM in 2021

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Mesa's Clover OpenCL Adds Support For Loading SPIR-V IL Programs

The latest OpenCL "Clover" work to land in Mesa 21.0 is support for the cl_khr_il_program extension.

This one year old merge request was merged on New Year's Day. The work by Pierre Moreau is support for the cl_khr_il_program extension functionality that since has been merged into OpenCL core. This is about supporting OpenCL kernels as intermediate language (SPIR/SPIR-V IL) rather than OpenCL C code. The merge request has support for the

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Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer

For years LLVMpipe has been around as a superior software-based OpenGL implementation for those without a working GPU / hardware driver support or needing to test a bit of GL code along a vendor-neutral path. LLVMpipe thanks to leveraging LLVM is more performant than the traditional Mesa software rasterizer or similar avenues like Softpipe. Finally as we hit 2021, SWRAST has been removed from the Mesa code-base.

Earlier this month Mesa 21.0 dropped the classic OSMesa code while for ending out the year Red

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Fedora 34 Planning To Make Use Of Systemd-OOMD To Improve Low Memory Experience

At the end of November systemd 247 released with the new Out-of-Memory Daemon (systemd-oomd) and for the Fedora 34 release next year that will likely be enabled by default for all spins.

Systemd-OOMD aims to improve the Linux low-memory / OoM experience and is based on code originally written by Facebook for their Linux servers and then adapted for Linux desktop memory pressure scenarios. Systemd-OOMD allows monitoring for resource contention and can kill opt-in processes when the memory/
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(PR) GIGABYTE Joins MLCommons to Accelerate the Machine Learning Community

GIGABYTE Technology, an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, today announced GIGABYTE as one of the founding members of MLCommons, an open engineering consortium with the goal of accelerating machine learning with benchmarking, large-scale open data sets, and best practices that are community-driven.

In 2018, a group from Google, Baidu, Harvard, and Stanford created a benchmarking suite for machine learning called MLPerf. The purpose was to evaluate the new generation of accelerators to neural-networking jobs performance.