Ahoy, a brand new Linux kernel release is now available to download. Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, announced the release of Linux 5.18 in a short email to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, writing: “No unexpected nasty surprises this last week, so here we go with the 5.18 release right on schedule”. So what’s new? Among the headline changes is the (somewhat) controversial inclusion of Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver to the mainline kernel. This driver (to cut a long story short) restricts access to certain processor features if a certificate from Intel isn’t present. Some fear SDSi will […]
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