Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to ...
Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...
Spend enough time around Android, or even PCs, and eventually, you will come across the term, “the Linux kernel.” Android uses the Linux kernel too. In fact, it’s an integral part of the way your ...
Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial ...
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.9 in the night from Sunday to Monday. With VDO, the latest incarnation of the kernel promises to save disk space and improve the performance of FUSE file systems. In ...
Forward-looking: Researchers have unveiled a small but powerful modification to the Linux kernel that could significantly reduce energy consumption in data centers. The proposed alteration comes at a ...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada found that modifying just 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel could cut data center energy consumption by 30% ...
This week, ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...