RAID level RAID 0 (striping)RAID 1 (mirror)RAID 5 (single parity)RAID 6 (double parity)RAID 10 (striped mirrors) ZFS mirrorRAIDZ1RAIDZ2RAIDZ3 Number of drives Drive sizes All the same Mixed Drive capacity TB GB Drive class Consumer (URE 1 in 10¹⁴)NAS / enterprise (URE 1
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By now, you must know that mainstream Linux desktop environments, and by extension, distributions, are moving away from X11. If you don’t know what an X11 session is, it is a desktop session that uses the X Window System, typically through the
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If you’ve followed It’s FOSS for a while, you probably have seen our previous coverage of ArmSoM devices. I reviewed the Sige7 a while back and came away impressed (cheeky headline and all). Earlier this year, we also covered the Sige6, the
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LF Research is the Linux Foundation’s research arm. It was set up in 2021 and publishes studies on how open source is built and used, drawing on surveys and project data. Its latest report, Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative
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The kernel’s filesystem mailing list has received an 18-patch proposal this week from Aurelien Desbrieres, the creator of BeamFS. It takes the place of FTRFS, an earlier filesystem he had proposed back in April. Aurelien says he used Anthropic’s Claude to write
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Steam’s Linux client is going 64-bit and containerized. Running the client inside Steam Runtime containers, like its games already do, should make it behave more consistently across different distros. Ubuntu 26.10 is out now. This interim release completes the rustification of core
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I spend a lot of time in the terminal. Whether it is writing scripts, editing configuration files, or managing remote servers, the terminal remains the place where I get most of my work done. But when a project becomes slightly complex, I
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Brax Technologies, the company behind the BraX3 smartphone and the open_slate tablet, opened pre-orders for the Wink last week with plans to ship it in two batches next year. Rob Braxman, a co-founder of the company and known on the web as
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What I realized in the past week or so is that if you can reverse engineer it, any software is open source software. Not in the license sense, of course. But AI agents are getting good at reading binaries, tracing what an
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If you have been planning to get a certification, this is the week to do it. The Linux Foundation is running its Cyber Security Month promo, and you can get up to 40% off on cyber security certifications, training courses and the
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