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

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

Ubuntu 25.04 Boosting AMD EPYC 9005 Performance Even Higher: ~14% Faster Than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 23:19
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.

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