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NFS Client Changes For Linux 5.9 Include User Xattr Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 14:57
As reported a few days ago the NFS server with Linux 5.9 saw user xattr support finally merged for user-extended attributes as defined by RFC 8276. The NFS client changes have now been sent in for this kernel and include the user xattr support along with other changes...

OpenRISC Sees Sane TLB Flushing With Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 12:02
While RISC-V is flourishing when it comes to this open-source CPU architecture, the related OpenRISC architecture is still advancing but not seeing as much hardware efforts around it. In any case, the Linux kernel support continues improving for OpenRISC and with Linux 5.9 are more improvements...

Wine 5.15 Release Brings Initial Work On XACT Engine Libraries

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 05:46
Wine 5.15 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for this program allowing Windows games/applications to generally run quite gracefully on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Details TDX To Better Protect Virtual Machines

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 02:06
Intel has published a whitepaper on their new TDX "Trust Domain Extensions" technology for better securing virtual machines...

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