After those Linux file-system benchmarks were published, we received a request from Canonical to look at the EXT3 performance too. With that said, we have done just that and have published EXT3, EXT4, and Btrfs benchmarks from Ubuntu 9.10 and a Ubuntu 10.04 development snapshot from an Intel Atom netbook.

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is scheduled to arrive in October. Ars takes a look at the second alpha release, which was made available for download last week.

To celebrate the stabilization and release of Ubuntu 9.04, I’ve destabilized my primary (work and personal) laptop a bit by migrating from ext3 to ext4, following (more or less) the procedure I found on the ext4 wiki.

One of the more controversial aspects of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release is the use of the ext4 filesystem. Users have apparently lost important data already while testing Ubuntu on their desktop.

Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackelope” is set for release in less than two months, and is currently in the “Alpha 6″ testing stage. Arguably the hottest new feature is stable support for Linux’s new filesystem, ext4

Sometimes last week, Linux Format awards in issue LXF115 was held. Ubuntu and Canonical scooped couple of awards, which proves their popularity.

Ext4, the next generation of Linux’s Ext3 filesystem, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 installer images. Ext4 was officially declared stable in version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel, which was released last month.

With theEXT4 file-systemhaving been stabilized with theLinux 2.6.28 kernel, the Ubuntu developers are preparing to adopt this evolutionary Linux file-system update.