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Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today's article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS.

Sent out this week were more Intel Xe driver feature patches to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window...

Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P, Introduces VM_BIND DECOMPRESS  Phoronix

Omega Linux Revives Old PCs, Beats Ubuntu on Aging Hardware  findarticles.com

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it  theregister.com

4 Microsoft Copilot Linux alternatives that are just as good (if not better)  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.4.346 was published today with one big new extension in tow: VK_KHR_device_address_commands...

Nanny state vs. Linux: show us your ID, kid  theregister.com

FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements...

Good News! Google Chrome on Linux is Getting the Much Awaited Upgrade  It's FOSS

I tested Omega Linux to see if it can revitalize an old PC, and it made Ubuntu distributions look bad  ZDNET

EndeavourOS 2026.03.06 launches with installer improvements and the 6.19.6 kernel  Notebookcheck

Alert issued over critical vulnerabilities in Linux’s AppArmor security layer – more than 12 million enterprise systems are at risk of root access  ITPro

These 4 distros tried to reinvent Linux (but failed)  How-To Geek

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads  Phoronix

A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp...

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux  Phoronix

For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs...

Critical CrackArmor Flaws Put 12.6 Million Linux Servers at Risk of Root Takeover  cyberpress.org

GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots...