Petros Koutoupis

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Petros Koutoupis, LJ Editor at Large, is currently a senior performance software engineer at Cray for its Lustre High Performance File System division. He is also the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project. Petros has worked in the data storage industry for well over a decade and has helped pioneer the many technologies unleashed in the wild today.

Articles by Petros Koutoupis
Oops! Debugging Kernel Panics
August 7, 2019
Digging Through the DevOps Arsenal: Introducing Ansible
August 7, 2019
What Does It Take to Make a Kernel?
July 23, 2019
Data in a Flash, Part IV: the Future of Memory Technologies
July 19, 2019
Episode 22: Don't Panic, It's All About the Kernel
July 2, 2019
Docker Is Porting Its Container Platform to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, Ubuntu 19.10 Will Drop 32-Bit Builds, Children of Morta Still Coming to Linux and Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Linux TCP System
June 19, 2019
Slimbook Launches New "Apollo" Linux PC, First Beta for Service Pack 5 of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Is Out, NVIDIA Binary Drivers for Ubuntu Growing Stale, DragonFly BSD v 5.6 Released and Qt v. 5.12.4 Now Available
June 18, 2019
FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 Available, Lenovo ThinkPad P To Come With Ubuntu Pre-Installed, Star Labs Now Offers Zorin OS On Laptops, Remote Monitoring Software Pulseway v6.3.3 Released, PCLinuxOS KDE Full Edition 2019.06, Linux Kernel Update
June 17, 2019
Canonical Announces Embedded Computer Manifold 2 for Drone Developers, Request For Help Testing Snap Package, PHP v7.4.0 Available, PyCharm 2019.2 EAP3 Released, Talks To Port Over Microsoft's Chromium-Based Edge browser To Linux
June 14, 2019
Wickr: Redefining the Messaging Platform, an Interview with Co-Founder, Chris Howell
June 14, 2019
Atari Opens Pre-Orders to VCS Retro Gaming Console, Gimp v2.10.12 Released, Distro-Specific Store Pages For Snap Apps Launches, Preview For Built-In Linux Kernel for Windows 10 Available in WSL 2, fs-verity Module MAY Merge Into Mainline Kernel
June 13, 2019
Data in a Flash, Part III: NVMe over Fabrics Using TCP
June 10, 2019
Data in a Flash, Part II: Using NVMe Drives and Creating an NVMe over Fabrics Network
May 20, 2019
Puppet Redefines Infrastructure Automation
May 15, 2019
Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure: an Interview with Canonical
May 9, 2019
Data in a Flash, Part I: the Evolution of Disk Storage and an Introduction to NVMe
April 29, 2019
New Flatpak Sandboxing Linux Package Management Platform Release, Ubuntu 19.04 Final Freeze Stage, New Version of Emacs Out, Reiser4 File System Now Supports Linux 5.0 Kernel, New Version of Wine Released
April 15, 2019
Rust v1.34.0, NoScript Now in Chrome Web Store, PinePhone Sneak Peek, Purism Starts to Ship Pre-Built Binaries for BIOS Updates, Systemd 242 Released
April 12, 2019
Red Hat Certified Engineer Program Changes, OpenStack v19 Released, XFCE Back in openSUSE Installer, GNOME 3.32.1 Marks First Point Release of 3.32
April 11, 2019
E8Storage and ThinkParQ Work Together to Deliver Faster Backups, Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux Desktop, ZFS into Ubuntu Installer Update, GRUB v2.04 New Features, GhostBSD Released
April 10, 2019
Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source, Part II
March 28, 2019
Taking System Monitoring to the Next Level: an Interview with Scalyr CEO Steve Newman
February 22, 2019
SUSE OpenStack Cloud v9, Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Released, Happy Birthday Steam for Linux, WebKitGTK v 2.23.90 Released, Future Support of Virtual Desktops Hinted at in Chromium Codebase
February 15, 2019
RIP Dr. Bernard L. Peuto, Porting Android 9 Pie Go Stack to Rpi 3, LibreOffice v6.2 Coming Soon, Red Hat Virtualization Platform 4.3 Beta Released, Deepin Desktop Environment
February 14, 2019
Plasma v5.15 Released, NetBSD Switching to GCC v7, Django Announces Important Bug Fix, Xen Project Developer and Design Summit
February 13, 2019
PyPy v7.0.0, Vulernability Affecting runc and Container Technologies, Ubuntu for ARM-based Windows Laptops, antiX MX v18.1
February 12, 2019
Linux 5.0, Canonical Update, openSUSE Board Elections, Woman and Girls in Science, European Astro-Pi Challenge
February 11, 2019
The Taloflow Instance Manager (Tim)
February 8, 2019
Redefining the Landscape of System Monitoring: an Interview with Pulseway's Founder
January 25, 2019
F2FS Filesystem Enhancements (for Pixel Devices), Wine HQ Dev Release, Gzip v1.10, VideoLan v3.0.5, KaOS Linux Distro v2018.12
December 31, 2018
Freescale and NXP PowerPC Microprocessors Protected Against Spectre, Chromebook to Support Dual-Boot Mode, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Game Kickstarted Campaign Cancels Linux Port
December 28, 2018
The Ceph Foundation and Building a Community: an Interview with SUSE
December 28, 2018
Chrome OS To Test GPU Support for Linux Installed Apps, antiX Distro v17.3, OpenMandriva Project vLx4.0, Hummingboard CBi Released
December 27, 2018
Temperature Monitoring Support for AMD Zen 2, PowerPC On-Chip Controller in 4.21 Kernel, Changes Coming in the MIPS Arena, 4MLinux Beta Release
December 26, 2018
CI/CD and the New Generation of Software Delivery: an Interview with Harness
December 21, 2018
Reinventing Software Development and Availability with Open Source: an Interview with One of Microsoft Azure's Lead Architects
December 7, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Containers, Part III: Orchestration with Kubernetes
November 28, 2018
Eren Niazi, Part II: the Untold Story
November 22, 2018
Review: the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Laptop
November 12, 2018
Ubuntu Desktop in the Hyper-V Gallery, an Interview with Canonical and Microsoft
October 26, 2018
Pioneers in Open Source--Eren Niazi, Part I: the Start of a Movement and the Open-Source Revolution Redefining the Data Center
October 23, 2018
Book Review: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) by Adam Fisher
September 7, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Linux Containers, Part II: Working with Linux Containers (LXC)
August 27, 2018
Haiku Release R1/beta1, Flatpack v. 1.0.0, SUSE Updates Their Kernel to Boost Performance on Azure, Debian Receives Mitigation Updates to Vulnerability
August 21, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Linux Containers, Part I: Linux Control Groups and Process Isolation
August 21, 2018
Trinity Desktop Environment New Release, New Read-Only File System Designed for Android Devices, CloudNative Conference Coming Up, Retro Arcade Games Coming to Polycade
August 20, 2018
Endless OS and Asus, Update on L1TF Exploit, Free Red Hat DevConf.US in Boston, Linux 4.19 Kernel Update
August 17, 2018
Valve Working to Make Windows Games Run in Linux, Intel Vulnerability Being Patched, CentOS 7.5 Available, GNOME 3.29.91 Released
August 16, 2018
VCs Are Investing Big into a New Cryptocurrency: Introducing Handshake
August 2, 2018
Pulseway: Systems Management at Your Fingertips
July 30, 2018
An Interview with Heptio, the Kubernetes Pioneers
July 30, 2018
UserLAnd, a Turnkey Linux in Your Pocket
July 9, 2018
DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source
July 3, 2018
Embracing Snaps: an Interview with Canonical and Slack
June 27, 2018
The Lustre Filesystem Dropped from the Linux 4.18 Kernel
June 11, 2018
Kubernetes, Four Years Later, and Amazon Redefining Container Orchestration
June 6, 2018
Data Privacy: Why It Matters and How to Protect Yourself
June 5, 2018
Thunderbird and the Recent #EFAIL Vulnerability, Fedora Urges Users to Update DHCP Packages, Kernel Updates and More
May 16, 2018
GSConnect, Mozilla Firefox 61, Scientific Linux 7.5, GNOME and Nautilus
May 15, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part II: Using the Cloud
May 15, 2018
WineHQ, Malware in Ubuntu Snap Store, Linux Kernel 4.17, Hardware Security Updates to Android, PGP and S/MIME Vulnerabilities
May 14, 2018
Gnome Login Screen Redesign, CentOS Update, VirtualBox, Mender Team and IoT
May 11, 2018
Firefox Quantum, Bcachefs, Ubuntu, Devuan 2.0
May 10, 2018
OpenShift, IBM Cloud, Azure, Linux apps on Chrome OS, Twitter, Serious Flaw on AMD and Intel x86 CPUs
May 9, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part I
May 9, 2018
Blockchain, Part II: Configuring a Blockchain Network and Leveraging the Technology
April 24, 2018
Blockchain, Part I: Introduction and Cryptocurrency
April 9, 2018
Product Review: GitStorage
March 27, 2018
5 Minute FOSS: Spinning a custom Linux distribution
March 23, 2018
Why Do We Do It?
March 4, 2018
Kernel patch releases, WineHQ, OpenIndiana project, FreeBSD Unix distribution, Xubuntu community contest
February 19, 2018
HiFive, LibreOffice, Meltdown and Spectre and more
February 16, 2018
New Kernel Releases, Net Neutrality, Thunderbird Survey and More
January 17, 2018
Firefox Release, Xen, KDE's Plasma and More
January 16, 2018
Linux kernel mailing list back online; Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities; Mobile OS eelo; Barcelona now using Linux
January 15, 2018
Why the Largest Companies in the World Count on Linux Servers
June 13, 2017
Mastering ATA over Ethernet
May 24, 2017
Understanding OpenStack's Success
February 21, 2017
Installing and Running a Headless Virtualization Server
October 25, 2016
NVMe over Fabrics Support Coming to the Linux 4.8 Kernel
August 22, 2016
Understanding Ceph and Its Place in the Market
June 21, 2016
ZFS: Finding Its Way to a Linux Near You?
June 1, 2016
High-Availability Storage with HA-LVM
February 26, 2015
Advanced Hard Drive Caching Techniques
November 25, 2013
The Lustre Distributed Filesystem
November 28, 2011
Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.2b Stable release, a new kind of Linux RAM Disk
August 30, 2011
Data Deduplication with Linux
August 25, 2011
Archiving Data with Snapshots in LVM2
February 28, 2011