Notable Package Upgrades and Initrd Compression

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• nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
• Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
• Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
• Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
• Fedora COSMIC Spin
• Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
• [Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
• Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
• Millisecond on Flathub
• noblepayne/millisecond-flake
• rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
• How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
• Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust