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Installing Davinci Resolve on Debian with MakeResolveDeb + basic usage

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Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux.

LoongArch 64-bit is now an official architecture of Debian and will be part of the next Debian 14 "Forky" release. The announcement came down today that Loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian:

"I am happy to announce that a little more than two years after the initial bootstrap in Debian Ports, loong64 has become an official architecture in Debian and will therefore be part of the upcoming Debian 14 ("forky") release if everything goes along as planned.

So far, we have manually built and imported an initial set of 112 packages with the help of the packages in Debian Ports. This was enough to create an initial chroot and set up the first buildd which is now churning through the build queue. Over night, the currently single buildd instance already built and uploaded 300 new packages.

It is expected that this initial bootstrap will take about a week depending on whether additional buildd instances will be added later the next days which would increase the build throughput."

LoongArch is the CPU architecture developed by Loongson in China and inspired by MIPS and RISC-V. Coincidentally this week I also received word from Loongson of interest in sending over review samples, so hopefully soon there will finally be some LoongArch benchmarks appearing on Phoronix.

Debian 14 "Forky" with official LoongArch support and many other new features should be out in 2027.

Debian developers now have an official way to publish and test add-on package repositories, as the Debusine project has opened its repository feature in public beta.

The new service, available at debusine.debian.net, allows Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers to create APT-compatible repositories that function similarly to the well-known Ubuntu’s PPAs but are built specifically for the Debian ecosystem.

Debusine itself is a relatively new project within Debian’s infrastructure. It was introduced publicly at DebConf and has been developed to modernize and unify Debian’s internal workflows for package building, testing, and quality assurance. Until now, much of this work has taken place behind the scenes. With the launch of repositories in beta, Debusine is becoming directly usable for day-to-day development tasks.

Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux.

Debian 13.2 incorporates dozens of package updates due to various security issues and other general bug fixes. Security fixes in tow for Chromium, 7-Zip, the Linux kernel, Redis, Firefox ESR, Incus, GIMP, LXD, Bind9, cjson, and many other packages.

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their "FTP Master" team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team "Archive Team" and DFSG, Licensing and New Packages Team "DFSG Team" in its place.

Schematics of the Powerboard Tyche Desktop version Completed! Soon starting the PCB design
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🎉 Happy Birthday, @ubuntu! 🐧🎂

In April 2004, Mark Shuttleworth invited a dozen @debian developers to his London flat, where they brainstormed and laid out the features of what would become Ubuntu.

Today, Ubuntu has over 40 million desktop users worldwide, and it powers top #supercomputers, servers, clouds, #IoT devices, and more!

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How did the changes in the binary test files tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz and tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma, and the makefile change in m4/build-to-host.m4) manifest to the Debian maintainer? Was there a chance of noticing something odd?

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