![]() ![]() My colleagues with the OpenBSD project are flattered by the popularity of OpenSSH but insist that they don’t want it to be the only game in town. Monocultures risk becoming vulnerable monopolies which is why virus writers target Microsoft Windows and we may face an “ Impending Crypto Monoculture“. This vote of no confidence from Red Hat leaves OpenZFS as the only proven Open Source data-validating enterprise file system and with that role comes great responsibility. SUSE continues to support Btrfs in only RAID 10 equivalent configurations, and only time will tell if bcachefs proves to be a compelling alternative to OpenZFS. I personally have invested my volunteer time and career in Open Source hypervisors and file systems and I am saddened to hear that a fledgling alternative to OpenZFS suffered a setback this week with Red Hat’s announcement that it is deprecating Btrfs as a “Preview” file system. Name any category of software from complete operating systems on up and you have a plethora of choices with drastically-different philosophies, licenses, countries of origin, programming languages, and user experiences. Beyond the balance of freedom and control that Open Source provides, the sheer choice found in the Open Source ecosystem is one of its greatest strengths. I don’t know who said it first but hats off to them: “The only thing worse than competition is no competition.” This adage applies equally to market making where no competition can mean no customers, and to monopolies and monocultures. Canonical believes that this is an acceptable use others, like the Software Freedom Conservancy, feel it isn't.Our Senior Analyst’s take on this week’s Btrfs news from Red Hat Sun released it under its CDDL licence, which is incompatible with the Linux kernel's GPL2. The other big-name enterprise distros, SUSE and Red Hat, both exclude ZFS on licensing grounds. ![]() The original, pre-OpenZFS version remains part of Oracle's own Solaris.ĭebian includes it in its contribs repository as source code, meaning that the Dynamic Kernel Module System (or DKMS) must compile it afresh every time the kernel is updated. It's also supported in OpenSolaris derivatives such as Illumos, DilOS, OmniOS, OpenIndiana, SmartOS, and the Nexenta NAS OS. Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations.Linux-on-an-SBC project Armbian releases version 22.02.Open-source IDE NetBeans hits v13 – tweaks for Gradle, Maven.Fedora inches closer to dropping x86-32 support.This also applies to FreeBSD-based products such as the TrueNAS and XigmaNAS operating systems for NAS servers. The license clash that hinders Linux adoption of OpenZFS does not affect FreeBSD, which uses ZFS as its native filesystem. OpenMediaVault, a Linux-based NAS distro, includes an option to use the Proxmox kernel, which in turn lets it support ZFS too. It is also supported in Proxmox, a Linux-based hypervisor, as well as NixOS, Void Linux, Arch Linux, and other distros. Ubuntu is not the only distro to use ZFS, though. ![]() As such, it will almost certainly use OpenZFS 2.1.2, released in December 2021. "Jammy Jellyfish" will use the current long-term kernel, version 5.15. As such, OpenZFS 2.1.3 comes too late to be included. The main Linux distribution that uses ZFS is Ubuntu, and its next LTS release, 22.04, is due for release on April 27. ![]()
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