📰 LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New

LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite is now available for download with numerous new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-8-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

#opensource

📰 Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel

Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Tuned-PPD-Perf-Fix

#fedora #intel #kernel #linux

📰 My old Android phone became a Linux server, and it handles more than I expected

I've been trying to find a good use for the old Android phone that I have lying around. It has capable hardware with 8 GB RAM and a fairly modern processor. For the longest time, I have only used it as a portable hotspot when I am traveling and sometimes as a webcam for online meetings. Both of these use cases were not making the most out of the hardware that is inside this phone, so I decided to turn it into a Linux server.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-android-phone-linux-server-handles-more-expected/

#android #linux

📰 Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing

#kernel #linux