August 2024: Informational event of the month about the Linuxverse
Today, as usual, at the beginning of each month, we offer you our great, timely and brief news summary about the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux) current. Which always brings you a lot of recent and relevant information, so that you can easily keep up to date with the "information event for the current month of August 2024".
And just as we do at the beginning of each month, today we will be offering you 1 featured news related to each area of the Linuxverse. And finally, we will be mentioning the most recent releases in DistroWatch / OS.Watch / FOSS Torrent, and some interesting and useful Linux YouTube videos/podcasts.
July 2024: Informational event of the month about the Linuxverse
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for August 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
Linuxverse for August 2024: Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux
Linuxverse Briefing: August 2024
Free Software – August GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Nineteen new GNU releases!
This August 01st, and as usual at the beginning of the month, Amin Bandali, a well-known collaborator of the FSF, informs us of the software releases of the GNU project that have been updated during the previous month. And for this month of July 2024, it informs us that a total of 19 have been registered, including the following: automake-1.17, direvent-5.4, findutils-4.10.0, gcc-11.5.0, gdb-15.1 , gdbm-1.24, g-golf-0.8.0-rc.5, glibc-2.40, global-6.6.13, gnuastro-0.23, gnupg-2.5.0, less-661, libcdio-10.2+2.0.2, lilypond -2.24.4, linux-libre-6.10-gnua, mes-0.27, mygnuhealth-2.2.1, nano-8.1 and parallel-20240722.
GNUPG: GNU Privacy Guard is a complete implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It is used to encrypt and sign data and communications. It has powerful key management and the ability to access public key servers. It includes several libraries: libassuan, libgpg-error and libskba. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – Deshni Govender: Voices of Open Source AI Definition
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a blog series to feature some of the people who have been actively involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. And on this occasion, the turn has fallen on Deshni Govender, who has answered many important and interesting questions, such as:
Open source and open systems enable nations to develop inclusive AI policy processes so that policymakers in countries in the Global South can leverage the expertise of their peers to address their AI policies and AI-related challenges. to find their own approaches to AI policies. This will also challenge the dependence and domination of Western-centric and Global North countries on AI policies to drive a narrative or agenda about “what” and “how”; i.e. Africa / Asia / LATAM must learn from us how to do X tasks/projects. Read more on the OSI Blog
GNU/Linux: Release of Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4
These first days of August, we learned about the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project Super Grub2 Disk (formerly, Rescatux), under the name of Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4. And among its most notable new features (changes, corrections, improvements and additions) of said release are the following 5:
- Includes support for many additional language translations.
- It offers new features such as support for the BTRFS file system.
- Fixed unicode.pf2 usage and grub.cfg files are now searched on EFI partitions.
- This is the first stable release to include SecureBoot enabled thanks to Debian's Grub.
- Adds specific options for booting various operating systems: EFI, FreeBSD, FreeDOS, Linux, Mac OS X, MSDOS, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows Vista (and more recent ones). And for other new Operating Systems, such as: GNU/Hurd, ReactOS and Linux from the /boot partition.
Super Grub2 Disk is a GNU/Linux Distribution for use on a live CD to help users boot almost any operating system, even if it cannot boot by normal means. This allows a user to boot into an already installed OS if their GRUB installation has not been overwritten, deleted, or corrupted in any way. Super Grub2 Disk can detect installed operating systems and provide a boot menu that allows the user to boot into the desired operating system. About Super Grub2 Disk
More breaking news
Recent releases of GNU/Linux Distros
Today, and for this beginning of the month, there are 3 quite striking and interesting launches, which correspond to:
- StormOS: July 28.
- Starbuntu 22.04.4.11: July 31.
- Nitrux 3.6.0: July 31.
Recent Videos and Podcasts about the Linuxverse
- Tic Tac Project – YouTube channels about the Linuxverse - Chapter 38 (Video)
- Atareao – Topic: 615 – End the poison on Twitter or X (Podcast)
Summary
In short, we hope this new roundup of news about the start of the "Linuxverse news event in August 2024", as usual, continues to help them be better informed and trained about the Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux.
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