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13 May

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support – Phoronix

Arch Linux derived CachyOS is known for its aggressive performance optimizations and running well on modern hardware. It's also leading when it comes to adopting other new Linux/open-source features. With this weekend's May 2024 ISO update, CachyOS has rolled out initial support for installing to a root file-system based on Bcachefs. Bcachefs was just added to the Linux 6.8 kernel and continues to be refined in an admittedly experimental state. It's been fairing well after early bugs were addressed. For those excited by this next-generation, copy-on-write open-source file-system CachyOS with its installer now allows using it. One of the main…

13 May

Rocky Linux sponsor offers lifeline for firms using CentOS 7 – iTWire

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The organisation that builds Rocky Linux, an enterprise Linux distribution that emerged in the wake of Red Hat's decision to block availability of its source code to the public, has announced an initiative called CIQ Bridge which it describes as "a lifeline for enterprises still using CentOS Linux 7". CentOS 7 reaches its end-of-life on 30 June. This project which produced an enterprise Linux distribution, was bought by Red Hat in 2014, but then shut down in December 2020, leaving many users angry. The distribution was basically Red Hat's Enterprise Linux without the trademarks, the only copyrighted portion. In June…