Category: Firmware Upgrade
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Fwupd 1.9.17 Linux Firmware Update: Expanded Support for Asus and Realtek Devices
The open-source Linux firmware update utility, Fwupd 1.9.17, has been launched today as a new maintenance update for Linux-based systems to extend support for additional devices and increased bug fixes. Arriving two weeks subsequent to the fwupd 1.9.16 release, fwupd 1.9.17 is presented to extend support for newest devices including the Asus DC201 dual 4K…
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Upcoming Fwupd Linux Firmware Updates to Utilize Zstd Compression
Richard Hughes, the developer and maintainer of Fwupd, recently made an announcement that upcoming versions of the widely used Linux firmware updater, responsible for firmware updates of a range of hardware devices in GNU/Linux distributions, will no longer utilize XZ Utils, but will switch to Zstandard (zstd) instead. The decision to move away from XZ…