An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...

Open-source local file systems, such as Linux Ext4, XFS, and Btrfs, remain a critical component in the world of modern storage. For example, many recent distributed file systems, such as Google GFS ...

DURHAM, N.C., May 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Open Invention Network (OIN), the only organization dedicated to mitigating patent risk in open source software (OSS), today announced the preservation ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

The AdvFS file system has had a bittersweet history. When introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s for DEC's Unix flavor (which would eventually become Tru64 UNIX), AdvFS was one ...

Microsoft introduced the New Technology File System (NTFS), a proprietary journaling file system, in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Since then, it replaced 1977's File Allocation Table (FAT) file system in ...

Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure ...