Fedora power tuning and OpenWrt theme work

Fedora users and packagers spent the day on power-profile regressions and architecture build capacity, while OpenWrt developers pushed LuCI theming, switch driver consolidation, and smaller gateway tools. Debian and NixOS threads stayed narrower, covering packaging metadata and Kubernetes manifest generation.

Tuned-ppd regressions on Intel hardware

Fedora users report that tuned-ppd delivers worse performance and efficiency than power-profiles-daemon on recent Intel platforms. Discussion cites Phoronix benchmarks and multiple reports of people switching back. The thread matters for anyone shipping laptop or workstation defaults that depend on the tuned stack.

Footstrap LuCI theme announced

A new Footstrap theme for OpenWrt LuCI was released with claims of roughly twice the speed of the Bootstrap-based theme. Testers on MT7621 and ath79 hardware reported gains and discussed backporting to the 25.12 release. Faster web UI rendering is material for low-end routers that still rely on LuCI.

RTL8367S support folded into rtl8365mb

OpenWrt developers posted patches and test builds to add RTL8367S-VB (0x6642) support to the existing rtl8365mb DSA driver rather than maintaining a separate driver. The goal is fewer duplicated switch drivers in the tree. Board maintainers with Realtek switch silicon have a clearer path to upstream coverage.

s390x builder outage and arch capacity

After an s390x builder outage, Fedora packagers debated whether s390x or ppc64le is the tighter bottleneck and how hardware shortages affect rebuild queues. The exchange highlights ongoing secondary-architecture resource limits. Package maintainers who still ship those arches face longer wait times when builders drop offline.

Debian copyright year checks

Debian developers discussed relaxing or dropping lintian checks that demand annual updates to years in debian/copyright when upstream itself omits years. The proposal would reduce mechanical churn in packaging. Maintainers who track many packages with sparse upstream copyright notices would see less noise.

Go Modbus gateway for OpenWrt

A developer open-sourced a lightweight Go Modbus TCP/RTU gateway aimed at OpenWrt, with multi-instance support, LuCI integration, and a binary around 4 MB. Thread traffic focused on build and packaging details. Industrial and home-automation users get another self-contained option that fits constrained flash.

Nixifest for Kubernetes manifests

Nixifest was announced as a way to generate typed Kubernetes manifests from Nix, with early comparison to Kubenix on CRD handling. The project targets reproducible cluster configuration inside the Nix ecosystem. Operators already expressing infrastructure in Nix gain another path to validated manifests.