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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...

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