Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to simplify updates

Ubuntu logo stick peels back to show circuitry underneath.Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is changing how hardware support updates are handled, splitting its single linux-firmware package into 17 vendor-specific sub-packages. The new approach aims to reduce the size of routine firmware updates for most users. Currently, firmware files are contained in a single package, which has grown to more than 500MB in download size in recent releases (and uses as much as 1GB disk space when installed). As such, if a security fix is applied to even specialised hardware like a 100KB update to Netronome or Mellanox network cards, mainly used in enterprise data centres, all Ubuntu users […]

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