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OpenBSD, Linux, and Limine Bootloader

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 09, 2023

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cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps

=> ↺ cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps

Thanks to the following commit by Todd Miller (millert@), cron(8) now supports random values in a range with a step value (i.e. "~/" in crontab(5) entries): [...]

Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPU Support Added In Latest Linux Patch

=> ↺ Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPU Support Added In Latest Linux Patch

There's more evidence now that Intel is going to launch its 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPU family on the desktop platform. We have seen various leaks over the past few months and the latest information comes within the Linux 6.3 patch which adds support for Meteor Lake-S SPI serial flash along with a list of Meteor Lake-S PCI IDs to the driver list of supported devices. This patch was released recently on the 6th of May.

Limine bootloader version 4.20230503.0

=> ↺ Limine bootloader version 4.20230503.0

mintsuki, the developer of Limine, reminded that the version of Limine in EasyOS is getting a bit old:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8634

=> ↺ https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8634

I have compiled Limine 4.20230503.0 in OE, see commit:
https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/58b82fc2f9f090e3b72e266b099cc69940f3a8e1

=> ↺ https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/58b82fc2f9f090e3b72e266b099cc69940f3a8e1

This is expected to be in Easy 5.3.

=> ↺ https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8634 | ↺ https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/58b82fc2f9f090e3b72e266b099cc69940f3a8e1

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