Kernel Space: OSFC, Torvalds, Linux 5.15 Plans, and Ozone/X11

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OSFC 2021 – Going Full Open-Source
OSFC 2020 was a blast - we had great talks and discussions, some virtual beers and a lot of fun - and OSFC 2021 is just around the corner! As remote conferences are new to us (and probably to everyone else as well) we gathered feedback from you - How did you liked the conference and on what bits can we improve to make the experience better next time. Of course, everyone here at the OSFC hoped that we can do a conference in person again - sadly that has to be postponed to next year. So here we are again - going full virtual! The overall feedback from you was good - however there was some feedback on the tools used for the OSFC that we like to share.
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Torvalds: GPLv2 'A Big Part' of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved 'Hugely Important'
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Some Of The Features Expected For Linux 5.15: DG2/Alchemist, BPF Timers, DAMON + More - Phoronix
If all goes according to plan the Linux 5.14 kernel will be released as stable today. Linux 5.14 has many new features but there is also a lot of work slated for the next cycle, Linux 5.15. Here's a look.
Among the material we've been covering ahead of the Linux 5.15 cycle includes the following items.
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Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed - Phoronix
The Chrome/Chromium web browser now has fully-enabled the Ozone/X11 platform support across both beta and stable channels.
With Chrome's Ozone platform abstraction code, for quite a while now developers have been working to provide good Wayland and X11 support from the same build. Using Ozone on X11/X.Org was previously an experimental option and now successfully went through an origin trial this summer.
Igalia developer Maksim Sisov shared this weekend that the Ozone/X11 platform support is now "100% enabled on STABLE and BETA channels." With the great state now of that support, they will be working to deprecate non-Ozone/X11 paths and removing that legacy X11 path in the near future.
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