More and more articles have been appearing on the EXT4 filesystem. In fact, the article that really caught my eye was one recently regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The benchmarks ...
Hey, I'm going to ask another probably silly question, but here goes anyway:<br><br>Has the ext2 filesystem changed at all from kernal 2.4.6 to 2.0.0? The reason I ask is because I am in the process ...
A few days ago I wrote an article about how the ChromeOS developers decided to remove support for the ext file systems (ext2, ext3 and ext4) from the ChromeOS file browsers. I made it pretty clear in ...
Sometimes people make decisions that are so baffling – and so far out of left field – that you are left simply… dumb struck. Now, I hear what you’re saying. “Isn’t ChromeOS… Linux? Don’t they simply ...
Singularity is an experimental microkernel and operating system project started in 2003 for which Microsoft posted the source code back in March. Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of ...
Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...
Kernel 6.18 brings enhanced hardware support: updated and new drivers for many platforms across architectures (x86_64, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, etc.), including improvements for GPUs, CPU power management, ...
Linux 6.12, expected on November 18 or 25, brings three major changes to the code that controls when and how long processes use the processor. The most hotly anticipated is the Extensible Scheduler ...