Neowin News Feed for: Filesystem

You can now explore Wikipedia through a Windows XP-esque desktop on the web

Usama Jawad — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:30:01 +0000

This Windows XP-inspired web experience transforms Wikipedia into a fully explorable filesystem with retro flair. Read more...

AlmaLinux 10.1 launches with Btrfs filesystem support

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:34:01 +0000

AlmaLinux 10.1 is out now, bringing with it the Btrfs filesystem as an optional choice during installation. Btrfs is good for those who want modern filesystem features. Read more...

Azure Managed Lustre arrives for HPC and AI workloads

Paul Hill — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Managed Lustre. It said this first-party managed service on Azure is available through two instances that offer different performance options. Read more...

Linus Torvalds is not much of a fan of GitHub's "absolutely useless garbage merges"

Sayan Sen — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:22:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds is not at all a fan of GitHub merges as he revealed recently in a response to a pull request. Torvalds thinks GitHub is mostly "fine", "but merges is not one of those things". Read more...

Debian 11 "bullseye" stable release is finally out, brings exFAT support and more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:16:01 +0000

The first stable version of Debian 11 (codenamed "bullseye") has been released earlier today by the Debian Project. It comes with a lot of new packages and features, like exFAT support, and more. Read more...

Windows 8 found to include new "Protogon" filesystem

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:31:50 +0000

It appears as though the Windows 8 may include some filesystem changes after years of sticking with NTFS as the standard go-to filesystem. Discovered by ITWorld’s Sando Villinger, early builds of Windows 8 include a... Read more...

ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X is dead

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:10:29 +0000

Apple's official project of porting ZFS to Mac OS X has been cancelled. In a simple message posted by MacOS Forge, Apple stated only "the ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository... Read more...