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Ubuntu Adds Support For A New Low-Cost RISC-V Board: The OrangePi RV2 8GB For ~$64  Phoronix

It turns out the Hierarchical Z "HiZ" implementation with AMD RDNA4 GPUs with the GFX12 graphics engine for early rejection of fragments before hitting the rendering pipeline is slightly buggy. Driver workarounds are needed for the HiZ/HiS support with RDNA4 GPUs to avoid potential hangs...

Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware...

IBM Announces The z17 Mainframe Powered By Telum II Processors  Phoronix

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released: Better Drivers, Faster Performance  GBHackers News

Download Shotcut (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

The post How to Free Up Space in Linux When Root (/) Partition Is Full first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

One of the most common problems Linux users face, especially on systems with limited disk space, is the root partition

The post How to Free Up Space in Linux When Root (/) Partition Is Full first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

I tried gaming on Linux — and it's better (and worse) than you think  Tom's Guide

In hoping to ease the experience for Linux enthusiasts and desktop users work through various potential hardware issues when running with AMD Zen (Ryzen) systems on Linux, a new documentation proposal adds a lot of helpers to the Linux kernel documentation area for dealing with different hardware woes...

New Documentation Aims To Help Improve AMD Zen System Debugging On Linux  Phoronix

Auto-Color Linux Backdoor: TTPs and Internal Architecture Exposed  GBHackers News

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project has published its March 2025 status report that outlines exciting progress made over the past month...

Mozilla Builders' LocalScore: An Interesting Local AI LLM Benchmark  Phoronix

Via Mozilla's Mozilla Builders initiative for fostering open-source AI projects is LocalScore, an interesting local AI large language model (LLM) benchmark for Windows and Linux systems. LocalScore has a lot of potential and also builds off the Mozilla Ocho Llamafile project as an easy-to-distribute LLM framework. LocalScore is still in its early stages but is already working well and will also be used in future hardware reviews on Phoronix...

You Can Apparently Now Benchmark Up To 8,192 Cores On Linux, As Monitoring Tool Turbostat Sees An Impressive Upgrade  Wccftech

Phosh 0.46.0 brings customization, UI improvements to the mobile Linux user interface  Liliputing

Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership  Insider Monkey

Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership  Yahoo Finance

I'm a Linux power user, and the latest Ubuntu update put a smile on my face  ZDNET

At the end of March with the Ubuntu 25.04 beta release I began running Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks on desktop hardware and finding some nice performance improvements thanks to the fresh Linux 6.14 kernel and other new software updates found in this next Ubuntu release. While those numbers were positive, the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance I am seeing on AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" servers is even more exhilarating. As the first of a lot more Ubuntu 25.04 server benchmarks to come, today is a first look at the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance on AMD EPYC 9005 compared to Ubuntu 24.10 and the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS releases.