Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer (s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, you ...

Whether you're running Linux on a desktop or a server, backups are essential to keeping your data safe and accessible. These ...

Most Linux systems today use a file system type called ext4. The “ext” part stands for “extended” and the 4 indicates that this is the 4th generation of this file system type.

For system administrators, it’s a powerful tool for scaling. Using a single configuration file, you can deploy identical systems across multiple machines.

Features such as volume-management, global namespace, compression, encryption, clone/snapshot, de-duplication, RAID and remote site replication should be the responsibility of the file system.

This file system evolved from the work Overstreet did at Google, where he worked as a software engineer for two years from 2011 until 2013 to create caching software. Bcachefs has all the features ...

All three versions of Linux Mint 20 user a Linux kernel 5.4 and an Ubuntu 20.04 package base, and each operating system will receive security updates until 2025, since this is an LTS (long term ...

Users can continue to use ext3, ext4 or some other traditional Linux file system as their default. SLES 12, released Monday, comes with a number of other features as well.

Analysis: Red Hat, Canonical and Novell are enhancing the security features in their Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE Linux distributions, which are all slated for release later in 2008.