container virtualization

WinBoat’s promise is simple but bold: give Linux users a way to run real Windows applications with the convenience of native windows on the desktop, without forcing them to wrestle with Wine, dual‑booting, or a full-blown manual VM setup. Background WinBoat is an open‑source project that...

Linux is adopting a subtle but powerful tweak to its in‑kernel compressed‑swap subsystem — zswap — that gives administrators and container orchestrators fine‑grained control to keep cold pages compressed in RAM instead of writing them to disk, a capability Windows has provided system‑wide for...