Puppy Linux 5.6 Starts Playing With F2FS
Puppy Linux, the lightweight and speed-oriented Linux distribution based upon Slackware, has updated their "Slacko" release to version 5.6 and with Puppy Linux 5.6 comes full F2FS file-system support.
Puppy Linux 5.6 is an upgrade over Puppy Linux 5.5 "Slacko" and most notably it has full support for F2FS, the Samsung-developed "Flash-Friendly File-System" that was recently introduced into the mainline Linux kernel.
Phoronix benchmarks of Samsung's F2FS has shown great performance for all shorts of flash-based storage. With Puppy 5.6 is full F2FS file-system support, which was back-ported to its Linux 3.4 kernel.
Puppy Linux 5.6 also features improvements to its Woof build system, bug-fixes to the base packages, and many other package updates.
More details on Puppy Linux 5.6 can be found out from its release announcement.
Puppy Linux 5.6 is an upgrade over Puppy Linux 5.5 "Slacko" and most notably it has full support for F2FS, the Samsung-developed "Flash-Friendly File-System" that was recently introduced into the mainline Linux kernel.
Phoronix benchmarks of Samsung's F2FS has shown great performance for all shorts of flash-based storage. With Puppy 5.6 is full F2FS file-system support, which was back-ported to its Linux 3.4 kernel.
Puppy Linux 5.6 also features improvements to its Woof build system, bug-fixes to the base packages, and many other package updates.
More details on Puppy Linux 5.6 can be found out from its release announcement.
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