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Linux Foundation Europe Announces Formation of OpenWallet ...  Dark Reading

Intel TPMI Driver Merged As Part Of x86 Platform Driver Updates For Linux 6.3  Phoronix

The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week into the Linux 6.3 kernel and include the initial Intel TPMI integration along with several other driver changes...

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Released With Linux 5.19 HWE Stack Option  Phoronix

Following a small delay, Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has been released as the latest point release for this current Long Term Support series for Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 5.19, Updated Components  9to5Linux

While the Blender open-source 3D modeling software decided three years ago that they would aim for quarterly releases and so delivering four releases per year, they have now decided to shift to delivering just three releases per year...

Linux 6.3 NFSD Adds AES-SHA2 Encryption, Memory Safety ...  Phoronix

The Network File-System (NFS) client and server changes have landed for the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel...

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds now works on Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

ChimeraOS 39 released switching to the new Steam Big Picture Mode  GamingOnLinux

Google has published a list of the participating open-source organizations for this year's Google Summer of Code...

Linux 6.3 DRM Brings Intel VPU Driver, Drops Legacy Drivers, Many AMD Updates  Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates that also include the new accelerator "accel" subsystem updates have been submitted and subsequently merged for the Linux 6.3 kernel. This pull has a lot of changes to these kernel graphics drivers as well as the first two AI accelerator drivers as part of the new kernel area...

Intel's open-source Compute-Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support along with the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) had been on a rhythm of typically seeing new tagged releases every week or two... Quite nice and living up to the open-source development philosophy of "release early, release often." That persisted for a long time until Q4'22 when the releases became less frequent. In early December though the release train stopped and not until this morning has there been a new release of the Compute-Runtime and IGC...

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) is one of the new features with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors but is limited this generation to deployment by a few select cloud partners. For Linux 6.3 this feature for hardware-isolated virtual machines is continuing to be further refined...

Intel TDX With Linux 6.3 Updated To Avoid "Total Insanity" Scenario  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Europe Launches the OpenWallet Foundation to Power Interoperable Digital ... - Latest  LatestLY

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps  GamingOnLinux

Fwupd 1.8.11 was released earlier today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution largely used on Linux systems for flashing motherboard/system firmware as well as various peripherals/devices...