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Linux Plumbers Conference: Update on the Plumbers Covid-19 Situation
We’re still planning to hold Plumbers, but adopting a wait and see attitude to the in-person component. As people have noticed, the global prospect for being able to travel to Halifax in August seems to be getting worse, so we’re posting this to give more transparency to what the Plumbers Conference decision points and options are.
Our first consideration is a go/no-go decision point for the in-person conference. Currently, the date we were planning to put the first batch of tickets on-sale (15 May) represents the ideal date for this because it gives time (another 6 weeks) for more clarity to emerge on the situation, while avoiding people doing early purchases only to be disappointed if the event has to be cancelled at a later date.
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AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1
One month ago to the day I was writing about OpenGL threading improvements for Mesa 20.1 and since then more "GLTHREAD" work has materialized and successfully landed for improving the Mesa OpenGL driver performance.
Longtime AMD open-source developer Marek Olšák has been leading this recent work on GLTHREAD. Over the past month he has landed various GLTHREAD optimizations and whitelisting more games to flip on "mesa_glthread" by default.
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Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux [Ed: Proprietary software of Microsoft would only make GNU/Linux weaker, not stronger]
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More of this Microsoft slant
Microsoft reveals new code integrity feature for Linux
More Microsoft crossover
Linux and Microsoft’s exFAT Filesystem: The Story So Far [Ed: Fossbytes again promotes the lie that Microsoft Loves Linux. It is, in effect, participating in Microsoft's attack on Linux.]
Microsoft project proposed to aid Linux IoT code integrity
Microsoft project proposed to aid Linux IoT code integrity
Microsoft IPE Is A New Code Integrity Feature For Linux
Microsoft IPE Is A New Code Integrity Feature For Linux