HP on Monday is announcing the contribution of its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the Linux community, offering capabilities in uptime, security, and improved performance of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...