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VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 14:54
Added back in Linux 5.4 was the VirtIO-FS file-system driver as a a FUSE-framework-based file-system implementation designed for guest to/from host file-system sharing for VirtIO para-virtualized devices. Now with QEMU 5.0 VirtIO-FS is supported on its side...

How To Install Varnish Cache 6 for Nginx on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 12:31
Varnish Cache (commonly referred to as Varnish) is an open-source, powerful and fast reverse-proxy HTTP accelerator with modern architecture and flexible configuration language. Being a reverse proxy simply means it is a software that...

Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 12:04
Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...

Intel Landing More Driver Work Needed For Discrete GPU Linux Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 07:09
Landing today in Mesa 20.1-devel were some of the OpenGL/Vulkan-side driver changes needed as part of Intel's road to bringing up discrete Xe GPU support under Linux...

Git Sees Another Round Of New Releases Due To Security Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 03:12
Last week saw a slew of new Git releases due to a security issue over the newline character creating a possible credential leak. This week is another round of emergency Git releases due to a similar security bug...

OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 02:23
Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...

There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 00:28
With WireGuard added to the Linux 5.6 kernel and it being back-ported to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its tools getting packaged up by more Linux distributions, it's finally the year of WireGuard. With its usage set to skyrocket as supported kernels and the WireGuard utilities become available out-of-the-box on more distributions, there is now a WireGuard benchmark for stressing the kernel and its support...

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