Announcing the release of Oracle Linux 7 Update 8

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update 8. Individual RPM packages are available on the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the Oracle Linux yum server. ISO installation images will soon be available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and Docker images are available via Oracle Container Registry and Docker Hub. Oracle Linux 7 Update 8 ships with the following kernel packages, which include bug fixes, security fixes and enhancements...

Devices: Rockchip, Olimex, DragonBoard and Axiomtek

• Adding mainline Arm Frame Buffer Compression support for Rockchip

  Rockchip SoCs, notably the RK3399, are popular in devices such as Chromebooks and single-board computers. Indeed, they bring some interesting features, one of them being the Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC).

• Olimex Launches a Breakout Board with Quectel BC66 NB-IoT module

  Quectel BC66 NB-IoT module is found on a few development boards such as Olimex NB-IoT DevKit, works worldwide – at least where NB-IoT networks are deployed -, and can be programmed with Arduino or PlatformIO.

• DragonBoard 845c Android (AOSP) Reference Board Supports Open Source Graphics, Mainline Kernel

  Besides the obvious Google Pixel and Nexus devices supported by AOSP (Android Open Source Project), we previously covered some single board computers that were also officially supported by the project with Hikey and Hikey 960 Android reference boards.

• Industrial PC has 8th or 9th Gen CPUs and six GbE ports

  Axiomtek’s fanless, rugged “eBOX710-521-FL” edge computer runs Linux or Win 10 on 8th or 9th Gen Coffee Lake chips with 6x GbE, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, 2x SATA, PCIe x4, and 2x mini-PCIe slots.

LibreOffice: LibreOffice Macro Team, Writer and Impress

• LibreOffice Macro Team: progress report

  Macros help users to automate common tasks in LibreOffice. In September 2019 we announced a new team in our community to work on macro support. A progress report was published in November 2019, so let’s review everything that happened since then. If you are interested in contributing to the macro team (development, testing or documentation), we’d love to hear from you – please send an email to ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org and we’ll get in touch.

• Padded numbering in Writer, part 2

  I already posted about the start of padded numbering support in Writer, there the focus was to insert 0 characters to pad up the result to 2 characters. Let’s see how that got extended in the recent past… First, thanks Nicolas Christener who made this work by Collabora possible.

• Presentation templates for Impress

  Possibly you search some nice presentation templates for LibreOffice Impress, because in-build templates aren't good for you?

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