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SUSE has reaffirmed its support for the Btrfs file system (based on the copy-on-write principle), of which it’s the biggest contributor, with it remaining the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise. As a blog post ( www.suse.com/communities/
blog/butter-bei-die-fische) written by Matthias Eckermann, director product management of SUSE Linux Enterprise, explains, SUSE’s investment in Btrfs has produced a number of features and innovations that are now essential to the distro – and of course, moving to a new filesystem for enterprise users would be a huge undertaking. Google has announced the launch of Chrome Enterprise, a version of Chrome OS designed for enterprise users. With Chromebooks becoming so popular among business and academic users, we feel this is a smart move. Chrome Enterprise, which costs $50 a year per device, comes with a range of extra features, including an enterprise app store, advanced security controls, 24/7 support and integration with cloud management tools. For more information, check out the blog post at www.blog.google/topics/ connected-workspaces/ introducing-chrome-enterprise.
Imagine if Linus Torvalds had been headhunted by Apple and stopped working on Linux. In that alternate reality you’d be probably holding a copy of MacFormat in your hands right now, but according to an interview with Wired, Linus was offered a job at Apple by Steve Jobs in 2000, to work on the Unix-based kernel of Mac OS. While it would have meant working for a bigger (at the time) user base, and probably resulted in a significantly larger monthly pay cheque, it would have also meant that Linus could no longer work on Linux, so he declined. We think he definitely made the right move!