{"id":167509,"date":"2025-09-29T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167509\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:27:10","slug":"bcachefs-announces-first-tier-arch-nixos-support-post-experimental-release-eoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167509\/","title":{"rendered":"Bcachefs Announces First-Tier Arch &#038; NixOS Support, Post-Experimental Release EOY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LINUX STORAGE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/linuxstorage.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nAhead of the stable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/search\/Linux+6.17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux 6.17<\/a> kernel release expected in the coming hours, Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet put out a blog post around the current multi-Linux distribution support for the out-of-tree DKMS packages for this copy-on-write file-system, some of their plans moving forward, and still aiming to graduate from the &#8220;experimental&#8221; phase at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a lot of exciting features in Linux 6.17, with the mainline Linux 6.17 kernel the Bcachefs code remains in a frozen state. And for the foreseeable future the Bcachefs code will remain frozen in mainline following disagreements with the upstream kernel community.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759127230_307_image\" alt=\"Bcachefs DKMS on Ubuntu\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Bcachefs-Debian-Ubuntu-DKMS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent Debian and Ubuntu packages of Bcachefs<\/a> for easy user consumption, Kent Overstreet in today&#8217;s blog post outlined the support across different distributions. NixOS and Arch Linux are considered as having &#8220;first tier&#8221; Bcachefs support with their DKMS migration. That is followed by Debian and Ubuntu distributions. They are also adapting Fedora support via a COPR repository and a possible Bcachefs.org-hosted RPM repository in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Kent also outlined his plans for pushing Bcachefs off the &#8220;experimental&#8221; phase around the end of the calendar year.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As for the release cadence for Bcachefs DKMS packages moving forward, Kent commented:&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The release channel &#8211; latest tagged release &#8211; has code that has been deemed stable. There is no fixed release cadence &#8211; bugfix releases are frequent, bigger features take longer to make their way from nightlies to release.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>More details on the Bcachefs DKMS happenings via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/139949871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this Patreon post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the stable Linux 6.17 kernel release expected in the coming hours, Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5870,59,5869,5867,5866,5873,5871,5868,5872,5865,5876,86,5874,5875,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-167509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-linux-benchmarking","11":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","12":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","13":"tag-linux-how-to","14":"tag-linux-performance","15":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}