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As discussed in Part 1 of this series, Stratis is a volume-managing filesystem (VMF) with functionality similar to ZFS and Btrfs. In designing Stratis, we studied the choices that developers of existing solutions made.

Configuring local storage is something desktop Linux users do very infrequently—maybe only once, during installation. Linux storage tech moves slowly, and many storage tools used 20 years ago are still used regularly today. But some things have improved since then. Why aren't people taking advantage of these new capabilities?

Adobe’s suite of Creative Cloud apps have not been ported to Linux officially despite incessant requests from Linux users. Find out how you can install Adobe CC on Linux without all the hassle.

Xubuntu 18.04 LTS has been released today as part of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series, as a long-term supported version that brings several important changes and enhancements.

Users coming to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04 with Unity might find it easier to switch (or at least feel more "at home") to Gnome Shell with the use of an extension called Unite.

We’ll show you how to install NextCloud 13 on Debian 9. Nextcloud is an open-source software suite that allows users to store their data such as files, contacts, calendars, news feed, TODO lists and much more, on their personal servers. It is using standard protocols such as webdavm, carddav and caldav.

TConventional wisdom says you can’t run a database in a container because “Containers are stateless!” or “Databases are pointless without state!” However, this is not true any longer with Kubernetes 1.5, which includes the new StatefulSet API object (in older versions, StatefulSet was known as PetSet). With StatefulSets, Kubernetes makes it easier to run stateful workloads such as Couchbase Server, a NoSQL database.

A look at challenged patents and patent lawsuits that are associated with patent trolls or Microsoft's distant proxies that are based in Texas

A round up of news for weekend reading.

News briefs for April 27, 2018.

This week in Linux and open source headlines, Mark Hinkle of Node.js Foundation shares what he's excited for in regards to the platform this year and more. Read on and stay open-source-informed!

What if you controlled all of your personal data instead of a dozen enormous companies? That could happen.

GIMP is a free and open source software for creating and editing image content. The development team has just announced the new stable release GIMP 2.10.0. It’s been almost six years of heavy development since the earlier stable release GIMP 2.8.x back in 2012. So, let's check what's new in GIMP 2.10.0.

In the last article, we covered the basics of Raspberry Pi. We talked about what Raspberry Pi is and how it can help make amazing projects. In this article, I'll talk about the parts of Raspberry Pi board. So let's get started!

Dave wraps up the shell-script L33t generator: Last time, I talked about what's known informally as l33t-speak, a series of letter and letter-pair substitutions that marks the jargon of the hacker elite (or some subset of hacker elite, because I'm pretty sure that real computer security experts don't need to substitute vowels with digits to sound cool and hip).

Google has released on Friday a new stable Chrome OS update for Chromebooks, adding new mitigations for the Meltdown security vulnerability, as well as numerous new features and improvements.

Shuttleworth took specific aim at rival Linx vendor Red Hat noting that a user of the older Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (RHEL) operating system could run the system through Ubuntu's Physical to Container (PtoC) tool and end up with a RHEL LXD container running on a modern Ubuntu kernel. A key reason why an organization might do that, according to Shuttleworth, is due to the fact that the older RHEL releases don't have kernels that have been patches for the recent spectre and meltdown CPU flaws.

It’s important to learn the necessary Systemd commands to start, stop, enable, and disable units from the command line. Spending a lot of time at the command prompt can be tiring, though, so Chkservice was created to help ease the strain of these managerial tasks. Chkservice uses Ncurses to offer a quick overview of your Systemd units. With administrative privileges, you can start and stop those units at will, all without typing a single systemctl entry.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver has been finally released. Here is a quick recap of new features and the download links for Ubuntu 18.04.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look three governments turning to open source, open sourcing driverless car safety practices, a school district developing an open source curriculum, and more.