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Samsung 870 QVO SSD Performance On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 23:30
The Samsung 870 QVO solid-state drives announced at the end of June have begun appearing at Internet retailers. The Samsung 870 QVO is the company's latest QLC NAND solid-state drive offering 1TB of storage for a little more than $120 USD all the way up to 4TB for $500 and an 8TB variant for $900. For those curious about the EXT4 file-system Linux performance out of the Samsung 870 QVO, here are some benchmarks.

Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 22:20
The popular GNU Nano terminal text editor has reached version 5.0...

Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 21:55
For fiscal year 2019 the Apache Software Foundation valued their codebase at around $20 billion USD. The open-source organization has now published their annual report for fiscal year 2020...

Google Sends Patches For AMD Zen / Zen 2 RAPL PowerCap Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 20:07
Building off the work sent out by Google engineers in recent months and merged for Linux 5.8 around RAPL support for AMD Zen / Zen 2 CPUs with supporting the "runtime average power limiting" counters on Linux similar to Intel's longstanding support, that work has continued now with Zen RAPL support in the PowerCap driver...

Intel Making It Easier To Flash Ethernet Device Firmware On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 18:41
For those using the Intel ICE Linux network driver that is used for the likes of the E800 series, it's now going to be easier updating the device firmware from Linux...

How to Install WordPress with Apache on Debian and Ubuntu

Tecmint - Wed, 07/29/2020 - 16:25
Writing an Apache or WordPress introduction will do no good due to the fact that both of them, combined together, are one of the most used Open Source Web Servers on the Internet today,

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