27 May 1999
Linux, the freeware operating system, has received a major boost from workstation and server manufacturer SGI, which says it will release a core part of its Irix operating system to the developer community.
At last week's LinuxExpo in the US, SGI executives said it will freely license its XFS journaling file system, allowing developers to incorporate it into their own variants of Linux.
A journaling file system records the changes made to data, making it considerably easier to recover data after a system crash.
All major commercial Unix variants and Windows NT have such a feature, and the lack of a journaling file in Linux has been identified as one of the biggest barriers to its acceptance as a serious commercial operating system.
'This is another brick in the foundation of Linux as a commercial operating system,' said Dan Kusnetzky, program director of operating environments for researcher IDC.
Kusnetzky said, however, this should be seen as just the first step for Linux.
'When you release software to the open source community you have to wait for the community to accept it,' he said.
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