The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8.3 on November 12 as the third maintenance update in the 26.8 series. It fixes 45 bugs, mostly crashes in Calc, Writer, Impress and Draw, along with some Microsoft Office compatibility problems and a few desktop integration bugs. It adds no features, and the count holds up: the published changelog has exactly 45 entries, and each one points to a bug report and a named developer. What the changelog shows The record behind the announcement is the 26.8.3.1 bug changelog on the TDF download mirrors. It lists 44 entries from the Document Foundation’s Bugzilla and…
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Christopher is a Linux and network administrator who writes about server management, security, and networking for Command Linux. Over his career he has managed web servers, mail servers, and small business networks, and his tutorials reflect problems he has solved firsthand. He is especially interested in server hardening and helping readers secure their systems from day one.
Libreboot 26.11 “Rubber Duck” was released on November 12, 2026, and on nearly every board it supports, the firmware now boots only through the EDK2 UEFI payload, with GRUB, GRUB-coreboot and MemTest86+ gone from the release images. The build changes are real and downloadable; the legacy-boot replacement and the Windows claim rest on much thinner evidence. What shipped in 26.11 ROMs and a signed 1.68 GB source tarball are on the project’s rsync mirror. According to the Libreboot 26.11 release notes, which list every change since 26.10, boards that use the EDK2 payload now use nothing else, and the separate…
Phoronix has published the first independent benchmarks of AMD’s Zen 6 EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors against NVIDIA’s Arm-based Vera, and both Venice parts led across most of an HPC-heavy suite, with QuantLib showing the widest gap at 2.39x. The results are measured rather than modeled, but they come from one lab, an AMD-supplied reference platform and Vera numbers carried over from an October run, and the overall margin is much smaller than the best single result. What was tested The comparison set two dual-socket Venice configurations against a dual-socket Vera server. The EPYC 9996 carries 256 Zen 6c cores per…