Happy Cyber Monday
https://www.ipfire.org/blog/happy-cyber-monday-launching-our-new-ipfire-mini-appliance
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Is the WIFI preorder about to be launched?
Not yet, we will likely start this in January.
How do you test that saturation?
Off topic: I have a nano-PC with a N100 processor, and I can’t see any signs of struggling with a 400MBps fiber connection. I don’t think I need more than that in a home, even with two people working remotely from home.
Intel Celeron J6412 vs N100 [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
What’s the status of the WIFI edition?
If one were to purchase a new mini appliance - would the old box WiFi fit the new black-box?
According to the producer,
the current box size should be 168 x 32 x 183 mm
the old box size should be 168 x 30 x 157 mm
For both add the antenna depth.
We are targeting a release in Q1 still. The upcoming Core Update will contain some important groundwork for this.
If you are interested in becoming a beta tester, feel free to contact me.
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Yes, but we are aiming for WiFi 7 with the new generation whereas the old one is WiFi 5.
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Is there a supported way to update the firmware on the new Mini Appliance yet?
The old APU was very easy to update with the firmware-update package - a single command, reboot and you’re done. Curious what’s planned here.
Still no WIFI7 edition?
I guess the WiFi-7-Edition will take some time.
As some may know, I bought a WiFi-7-modul (Qualcomm Atheros) last year for my Mini Appliance and am following the development of the firmware and driver ever since.
Firmware might not be the problem, because you can easily swap it, even on an already installed IPFire but there are a loooooooooot of commits in the newest kernels (6.13, 6.14 and even 6.15) for the ath12k-drivers and since IPFire uses LTS 6.12 a lot of backporting would be necessary for full functionality.
Let me get this straight: you can get it working since kernel 6.10 but not nearly with all the features 802.11be is capable of. And because I’m convinced that the IPFire-developers want to deliver a decent product, you have to put a lot of work in it.
Greetings Alex
Too bad. As said I thought it will come out in Q1/2025.
Well… it is here. On my desk. But time has been incredibly tight recently and so I chose to prioritise a couple of other things first.
I have not done too much testing with the latest 6.12 kernel. But I would be happy to have some beta testers…
I am happy to back port some things, but that also entails that things are actually backportable. There might be other changes in the kernel which might not allow us to do this all easily and therefore it either too much effort or chances are too high that we will break something else.
I wrote you a PM a quite long time ago.
Mine that my wonderful wife okayed for my birthday is still sitting on my desk behind me haunting me because she passed away suddenly on 01 Feb 2025 but I’ve been bombarding Watchtgu**rd with their ineptness at work so please tell me about time. Oh by the I’ve had recent coworker pass away on Monday and a coworkers wife pass away today so If you could explain any thing to me about any of this please do @ms
You must be The Grim Reaper!
I am when it comes to picking on Watchg**rd folks 
I keen on purchasing new but the current focus is putting a Pi5 DNS Sinkhole after the mini Appliance and it has Wifi ac or better. Does the new mini appliance have a means to DNS SinkHole the endless trackers and other bugs?