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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Some Works In Progress You're Looking Forward To? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I'll start!

Wayland greeter on SDDM
rust support on gcc
more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
Reproducible Build
ReactOS

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[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It has RAID modes and it intelligently rearranges data s.t. commonly used files are stored in a fast drive and fetched from there, whereas BTRFS will write to and read from a "random" drive regardless of its speed.

The previous solution of using btrfs raid1 + bcache (not the FS) separately was very wasteful because the cache had to store both/all copies of the data since btrfs picks a random drive to read from.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it provide any advantages for home users? I can see how this could be useful in enterprise settings, but does it benefit regular desktop users?

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, lots of storage space with redundancy and the speed advantage of an SSD. If you have enough data where a pair of reasonably priced SSDs is not enough then it is highly advantageous to combine them with (cheaper/bigger) HDDs.

Personally I would not consider a filesystem without data redundancy for my personal files, and I have enough pictures to fill some hard drives but I don't like waiting for them to load.