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📆 TMPDIR News - #83, Yoe releses, Podcasts, and Newsletters.
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Welcome to the 83rd issue of TMPDIR 📰 helping teams consistently innovate by exploring the latest open source Linux and IoT technologies and workflows. Please pass this on to anyone else who is interested in unlocking the power of open source.

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  • Platform Thinking - Cliff explores ideas for helping you build better products by building YOUR own Platform.
  • Exploring Your Mindset - Khem explores a broad range of topics from open-source, productivty, automation with the aim to improve both personally and organizationally.

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Khem and Cliff

Quote for the week

Good design adds value faster than it adds cost. -- Thomas C. Gale

Yoe releases 🚀

Yoe Releases have been rolling on schedule and latest of the releases available is November release of Yoe Distro As is usual with rolling release, useful features and fixes keep rolling in along with important security fixes implicitly fixed in newer components.

Among usual major package upgrades, there are important features

  • L4T R36.4.0/JetPack 6.1 support, this also unlocks hardware features on Jetson platforms which improves performance
  • Yoe now uses QT 6.8 by default for Kiosk browser
  • Clang compiler major version has been upgraded from 18.x to 19.1 series
  • An option to use swupdate OTA on tegra platforms has been added
  • Default python is now 3.13, recipes needing porting has also been fixed

LTS Kernels

Lately, LTS kernels have gone through some changes, where newer kernel are reducing the 6 year LTS cycle to 2 years. With 4.19 coming to EOL there still are 5.4, 5.10, 5,15 and 6.1 kernels being serviced for longer that 2 years period ending in December 2026. Starting with 6.6 the cycle has been reduced to 2 years Latest LTS is 6.12 and it has also been picked by Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) as their next CIP LTS kernel, please note the CIP supports the kernel for 10+ years.

Having shorter LTS cycles might help promote bringing users to consume closer to trunk kernels and use rolling release models for distributions which might also help in complying to EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Podcasts

There are a number of podcast episodes since we last sent out a newsletter:

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