Strictly speaking, no. 'ls -lc' will show you the 'ctime' of files, but that isn't actually the creation time. It's the time of last modification of file metadata, which could be the file's creation time, but it could also be the last time it was renamed, had its permissions changed, etc.

Yes, the linux file systems are a little different and all that I know of don't track it. I've been using the file metadata anyway since its more accurate as I've found that even in OS's that do track file creation time moving files to another drive messes it up since the file gets created on that drive. So when you put a new drive in your laptop and copy all the files from the old one the creation times are all changed to the time of the copy.