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What happens when the internet goes down during a moment of crisis, like political turmoil or a natural disaster? How do you access trustworthy information? How do you stay in touch with others? And how can you support your community during a crisis?

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Grinn GenioBoard Offers MediaTek Genio 700 SoM, Dual M.2 Expansion, and CRA-Ready Security

Grinn has unveiled the GenioBoard, a compact single-board computer aimed at accelerating development of embedded and AI-enabled systems. It integrates the company’s GenioSOM-510 and GenioSOM-700 modules built on MediaTek’s Genio processor family, combining multiple Arm Cortex-A cores with an integrated GPU and NPU for edge inference applications.

iLabs Challenger+ RP2040 LoRa Mk II Adds Upgraded Power Architecture and BConnect Expansion

iLabs has released the Challenger+ RP2040 LoRa Mk II, an upgraded Feather-format microcontroller board that combines the Raspberry Pi RP2040 with an RFM95W LoRa radio module. The new revision refines the original design with improved noise isolation, enhanced power distribution, and added modular connectivity options.

Turris Omnia NG Introduced with OpenWRT-Derived OS, Wi-Fi 7, and 10 Gbps Networking

CZ.NIC has launched the Turris Omnia NG router, described as a new open-source device focused on security, performance, and modularity. It features a quad-core processor, Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, and M.2-based expandability, targeting users who require a long-lasting and adaptable networking platform.

9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.0.17 Released with Support for Lexar and Maxio NVMe SSDs

The fwupd 2.0.17 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the ASUS CX9406 touch controller, Framework Copilot keyboard, Primax Ryder 2 mouse, Lexar and Maxio NVMe SSDs, Huddly C1, as well as Genesys GL352530 and GL352360.

LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements

Coming more than six months after LXQt 2.2, the LXQt 2.3 release introduces a new, more advanced Wayfire backend for the Wayland session, support for adjusting the screen backlight with the mouse wheel on the panel, and support for the ext-workspace-v1 protocol to the Desktop Switcher applet on the panel so that it works with more Wayland compositors.

NVIDIA 580.105.08 Linux Graphics Driver Released with a New Environment Variable

NVIDIA 580.95.05 is here to introduce a new environment variable, CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST, which allows users to disable the default behavior of boosting their NVIDIA GPU to a higher power state when running CUDA apps. Setting this environment variable to ‘1’ will disable the boost.

KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Improves KRunner’s Search Result Ordering and Fixes Regressions

KDE Plasma 6.5.2 improves KRunner’s search result ordering by prioritizing exact matches of names and keywords, substring matches anchored to the beginning of the name or caption, and substring matches in the middle.

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Debian splits ftpmaster team

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2025

Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new teams. The Archive Operations Team will focus on the infrastructure required to support the Debian archives, and the DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, which is responsible for reviewing packages entering the new queue. In time, this move could speed up processing of new packages, as well as making the teams more sustainable, but only after new members are recruited and trained. For now, the same folks are doing the work but spread across two teams.

Ftpmaster frustrations

The ftpmaster team has been in place at least since 2000, according to a snapshot of the Debian Organizational Structure page on the Internet Archive. It held a great deal of control over what did, or did not, enter Debian's archive. And with great power, of course, came a lot of responsibility as well. The team's duties ranged from maintaining the Debian archive infrastructure, developing the Debian Archive Kit (dak) software, and reviewing new packages. When a package is uploaded to Debian for the first time, it is placed in the new queue; before a package is allowed to enter the archive, it must be checked to ensure that it complies with Debian policy, has an appropriate license, its name does not conflict with another package, and so on. The Reject FAQ provides a non-exhaustive list of reasons that packages might be rejected.

It also made the team something of a bottleneck; packages submitted to the new queue could languish for months before being approved or rejected. There is a summary page for the new queue as well as a statistics page with graphs that track the number of packages in new over time. According to the summary page, there are many packages that have been in the queue for several months.

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