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How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 13:39
At times, you may need to host more than one domain or website on your Nginx web server. For that to happen, a Server Block (Virtual Hosts) needs to be configured to encapsulate all

Linux 5.9 To Support New EF100 NIC Architecture Developed By Xilinx

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 12:06
One of the new network drivers now queued up for Linux 5.9 is the SFC EF100 driver for the EF100 NIC architecture...

LLVM 11.0-RC1 Now Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 08:21
While LLVM 11.0 was branched almost two weeks ago with many new/improved features for this open-source compiler stack, it has taken until today to get into shape for issuing the first release candidate...

AMD "Navy Flounder" Support Merged Into Mesa 20.2

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 04:27
"Navy Flounder" as the codename for another Navi 2 GPU following the "Sienna Cichlid" Linux driver work has made it into Mesa 20.2 for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:00
A Microsoft engineer is proposing the Trampoline File Descriptor "TRAMPFD" as a new kernel API for securely dealing with trampoline code on systems. There are concerns already over the potential performance implications but there does seem to be some interest in this approach...

Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 00:35
Valve appears to have hired yet another open-source graphics driver developer and will initially be working on the Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 23:03
Red Hat has announced the public beta of the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 release...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Reaches Alpha

Phoronix - Tue, 07/28/2020 - 22:42
Along with OpenMandriva working on a rolling-release version of its distribution long ago derived from Mandrake/Mandriva, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is coming along as the next stable release...

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