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Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

Following Debian 12.3 being delayed due to an EXT4 data corruption bug briefly appearing in released Linux 6.1 LTS releases, Debian 12.3 has been replaced by Debian 12.4 and comes with dozens of bug fixes.

11 December 2023 - Debian 12.4 - 2 Comments
Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access
Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

Debian's MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an "out of sync" architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn't improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 "Trixie".

25 November 2023 - Debian + MIPS64EL - 22 Comments
Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium
Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium

Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged "/usr" file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed.

17 October 2023 - Merged /usr - 59 Comments
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports

In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port.

16 August 2023 - Debian + LoongArch - 18 Comments
Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards
Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

RISC-V is now an official Debian architecture for the Debian 13 "Trixie" release to happen in about two years time. Over the weekend a brief status update was issued surrounding this newest CPU architecture to be supported by the Debian GNU/Linux team. Arguably most interesting is how they are currently building out the Debian RISC-V packages.

31 July 2023 - 9 x SiFive HiFive Unmatched - 31 Comments
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released

Following this weekend's release of Debian 12.0, the Debian GNU Hurd port has been released that rather than utilizing the Linux kernel is making use of GNU Hurd.

12 June 2023 - Debian GNU Hurd - 39 Comments
Debian 12.0's Installer Reaches RC4 Status
Debian 12.0's Installer Reaches RC4 Status

The Debian 12 "Bookworm" release is quickly approaching with an early June release date while for helping facilitate more last minute testing is a fourth release candidate of the updated Debian Installer.

27 May 2023 - Debian Installer Bookworm RC4 - 1 Comment
Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released
Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released

In preparing for releasing Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" in June, out this weekend is the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for this next major Debian Linux release.

29 April 2023 - Debian 12.0 Installer - 3 Comments
Debian Adds Intel's accel-config To Package Archive
Debian Adds Intel's accel-config To Package Archive

Being introduced to the Debian package archive this week is accel-config as Intel's new user-space component for configuring the DSA accelerators found with the new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors.

12 January 2023 - Intel accel-config - 10 Comments
Debian 14 Codenamed "Forky"
Debian 14 Codenamed "Forky"

The upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 12 release is codenamed "Bookworm" and is expected to be released in 2023. Meanwhile Debian 13 will be out around 2025 and it was already announced under the Trixie codename. Now today it's been announced that Debian 14 come 2027 will also be known as the "Forky" release.

13 October 2022 - Debian 14 Forky - 22 Comments
Debian To Carry Patches For GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering
Debian To Carry Patches For GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering

There's been a lot happening in Debian recently from improving their handling of non-free firmware to switching to PipeWire and WirePlumber with Debian 12. Another change on the way is picking up Ubuntu's work on dynamic triple buffering for the GNOME desktop.

3 October 2022 - Debian + Dynamic Triple Buffering - 27 Comments
Debian To Consider Changing How It Treats Closed-Source Firmware
Debian To Consider Changing How It Treats Closed-Source Firmware

While most Linux distributions will include linux-firmware.git firmware files as the collection of firmware/microcode binaries needed by various mainline Linux kernel drivers, Debian does not. While the kernel drivers are open-source, the firmware files tend to be binary-only/closed-source, but these days are increasingly necessary for any level of functional support. Thus Debian is left in the awkward position of either providing poor hardware support and users left wondering what's going on or to make some improvements to better deal with today's world of firmware necessities.

19 April 2022 - Non-Free-Firmware - 50 Comments

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