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Sent in this morning for Linux 5.19 is AMD SEV-SNP support for that hardware feature introduced last year with AMD EPYC Milan 7003 series processors. Meanwhile Intel's alternative technology, Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) is coming with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" and also with Linux 5.19 that functionality is being readied on the software side...

It was just last October that Mesa's V3DV driver achieved Vulkan 1.1 conformance for this Broadcom Vulkan open-source driver most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer. Now Vulkan 1.2 is just on the horizon...

Linux Release Roundup #22.21: RHEL 9, KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta, Mesa 22.1, and More Releases  It's FOSS News

Linux kernel 5.18 arrives: Here's what's new  ZDNet

1. Linux kernel 5.18 arrives: Here's what's new  ZDNet
2. Linus Torvalds debuts 'boring old plain' Linux kernel 5.18  The Register
3. Linux Kernel 5.18 Has Been Released — What's New?  iTech Post
4. Linux Kernel 5.18 Released with Graphics Driver Changes and New Hardware Support  It's FOSS News
5. Linux Kernel 5.18 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux
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How to Install/Use Bitwarden in Linux  BollyInside

Last year with the launch of AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors one of the new security features was SEV-SNP, or the "Secure Nested Paging" update to the Secure Encrypted Virtualization functionality that has built up with succeeding EPYC generations. While AMD published out-of-tree kernel patches in a GitHub repository to enable SEV-SNP and has been volleying several revisions to them on the kernel mailing list, one year later it's finally arriving in mainline with the Linux 5.19 kernel...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 5.18 on Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Based Distributions  9to5Linux

System76 Collaborates with HP for a Powerful Linux Laptop for Developers  It's FOSS News

System76 Collaborates with HP for a Powerful Linux Laptop for Developers  It's FOSS News

While not marked as a pull request yet for mainlining to the kernel, Miguel Ojeda this morning sent out an updated set of patches adding in the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel. Separately, a new version of Uutils was released this weekend as the Rust language implementation of GNU Coreutils...

Rust For The Linux Kernel Updated, Uutils As Rust Version Of Coreutils Updated Too  Phoronix

Adding to the many changes expected for Linux 5.19, block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring creator Jens Axboe has submitted his several pull requests for this now-open new kernel development cycle...

Many IO_uring Improvements Submitted For Linux 5.19  Phoronix

AMD CEO Lisa Su keynoted this morning for Computex 2022 where she talked up some of the company's processor plans for the rest of the year. The focal points were on the much anticipated Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors as well as announcing the "Mendocino" APUs that will be coming to affordable laptops later in the year...

Building off yesterday's release of the Linux 5.18 kernel, the GNU FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-Libre 5.18-gnu kernel as their downstream that strips out support for using proprietary microcode/firmware or the ability to load binary-only kernel modules...

Lotus 123 For Linux Is Like A Digital Treasure Hunt  Hackaday

Ubuntu 22.10 is dropping PulseAudio  Ghacks

How to Install Wordpress on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server  Linux Shout

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 22nd, 2022  9to5Linux