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Two Melbourne open source developers have been working for a while on a project to make mobile phones useful as general purpose computing devices and in the broadest way possible.

Oracle has announced 11 new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and capabilities that will become available during 2022.

The release of version 2.0.0 by the OpenZFS project has some crowing as though some revolutionary new software, which will bring benefits to world+dog, has landed.

The merging of the ZFS filesystem into the Linux kernel codebase in the near future appears to be unlikely, after Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he would not merge the filesystem until he was assured that the owner, Oracle, would not sue.

The Debian GNU/Linux distribution will include the ZFS filesystem as a choice from now on, according to an announcement by Petter Reinholdtsen, the developer responsible.

Canonical's decision to offer the ZFS filesystem as default in the forthcoming April release of its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution has put others in the free software and open source community offside.

For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to overstep its boundaries.

Improved software for Oracle's ZFS Storage ZS3 provides new capabilities and better performance.

The next release of Debian, Squeeze, will include support for ZFS using the official installer, in its kFreeBSD port.

Oracle and NetApp have settled the patent suites that the database giant inherited with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.