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OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default

Posted by timothy on from the slippery dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The openSUSE Linux distribution looks like it may be the first major Linux distribution to ship the Btrfs file-system by default. The openSUSE 13.1 release is due out in November and is still using EXT4 by default, but after that the developers are looking at having openSUSE using Btrfs by default on new installations. The Btrfs features to be enabled would be the ones the developers feel are data-safe."

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  1. It'll be news once they do it by Strawser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really that interesting that they're "considering" it. Linux produces an endless litany of RSNs that never come to fruition. I've basically become numb to predictions about the future of the system. Everyone's been planning to do everything RSN for a decade and a half.

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    The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Re:Who uses the defaults? by nine-times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Desktop/laptop operating systems should be able to be installed casually without any thought.