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

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 18:32
Canonical announced today they have released Ubuntu developer images for the Orange Pi RV2, a new RISC-V single board computer that is low-cost with the SBC featuring 8GB of RAM costing just $64 USD...

RADV Lands Workaround For Buggy HiZ/HiS On AMD RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 18:13
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...

IBM Announces The z17 Mainframe Powered By Telum II Processors

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 17:55
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...

How to Free Up Space in Linux When Root (/) Partition Is Full

Tecmint - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 13:25
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.

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

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 08:27
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...

Rust-Written Redox OS Makes USB 3.x Improvements, Async NVMe Driver Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 03:07
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 - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 02:38
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...

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