December 2019: The good, the bad and the interesting of Free Software

Tomorrow, not only the year ends, but the decade of ten (10), and the first 20 years of the «Siglo XXI». But, referring specifically to the publications of the current month, «diciembre 2019», in which as usual, we offered information important or outstandingBoth good as bad, worthy of remember or highlight, we hope to bring you a small and useful review by some of them.

Therefore, we hope that this summary on the good, the bad and the interesting, inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» be very useful to prevent them from missing out on excellent content, news and facts from the world of «Software Libre», «Código Abierto», «GNU/Linux» and other topics related to «Informática y la Computación», and the «Actualidad tecnológica».

December 2019 Summary

Within DesdeLinux

The good

• The new version of Firefox 71 has already been released. Know its news and How to install it on Linux?: Mozilla launched the new version of its web browser "Firefox 71", as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.3 for the Android platform.
• Best Free and Free Alternatives to MS Office for 2020: Both on Windows and on Mac OS and Linux there are excellent free and open alternatives, or at least free, that can be used by everyone to carry out office work with quality and efficiency.
• Zorin OS 15.1 comes with better compatibility with Microsoft Office: Zorin OS 15.1 is the first major update in the series and as the initial version is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which means it has Linux Kernel 5.0 for better hardware support.
• Egrep: command examples in GNU / Linux: Egrep is a tool (console command) that is equivalent to running grep with the -E option. The e comes from "Extended regex", which is what activates the -E option and what you have in egrep by default without using that option.

The bad

• Rambler claimed full ownership of Nginx and Russian police raided its offices in MoscowRussian police raided the Nginx Inc. facility in Moscow after Rambler, a Russian search engine giant, claimed ownership of the source code for the Nginx web server.
• Around 267 million Facebook users were affected by a data breach: Security researcher Bob Diachenko recently released the news about the leak of a database containing personal details of 267 million Facebook users, in which they will have been compromised.
• Facebook respects your decision not to share your location, but asserts its authority and continues to track you: Facebook released a letter where it basically said that although users disable access to their location, the social network does everything possible to continue identified (located) wherever the user is.
• The grinch attacks Visual Studio Code and steals ChristmasMicrosoft was forced to apologize and modify a small change in its open source editor, “Visual Studio Code”. Since, an annoying person (@ Christian-Schiffer) on Github opened a thread showing his discontent with the "Christmas hat" on.

The interesting

• OSGeoLive: a distribution for geolocation jobs: There is a distro that works in Live mode for this type of geo tasks. Its name is OSGeoLive, and it is based on Lubuntu. OSGeoLive stands out for its slightly retro look of its interface, but don't be fooled, it hides interesting surprises.
• Elementary OS 5.1 Hera is now available, know what's new: The popular Linux distribution "Elementary OS" which comes with its most renewed version Elementary OS 5.1 with the code name "Hera". And it comes with a series of important changes to the system.
• Canonical needs your help to improve UbuntuCanonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution, has released a poll to encourage the community to contribute suggestions and ideas to make their future releases better than their current ones.
• GNU HEALTH: Now with new patch 3.6.2 to start 2020: GNU Health is an excellent Free Hospital and Health Management System. Therefore, it is intended for health professionals, health institutions and governments.

Other recommended posts of the month

• ALL: Speak openly Develop openly
• Code of Conduct for Open Source projects
• When you use Print Screen on your Ubuntu, does it no longer copy the capture to the clipboard? So you can solve it
• Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia already has its beta version

Outside DesdeLinux

1. CalculateLinux 20: The release of this major update to the Gentoo-based project's distribution set has been announced and available in the KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, LXQt, MATE and Xfce flavors. This release updates many packages, but also removes the i686 architecture.
2. Easy OS 2.2: An experimental Linux Distribution that uses many of the pioneering technologies and package formats of Puppy Linux. The distribution has a custom container technology called Easy Containers that can run applications or the entire desktop environment in one container. The latest version is built using Debian 10 packages.
3. Feren OS 2019-12: A Linux distribution based on Linux Mint. This is the first version of the project to include the KDE Plasma desktop by default, although a "Classic" edition with Cinnamon is also available.
4. AntiX19.1: A lightweight Linux distribution that includes IceWM as the default window manager, has been updated. Although it is largely a bugfix release, the new release also updates IceWM to version 1.6.3.
5. EndeavorOS 2019.12.22: A continuous release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Whose latest version of the project, introduces the possibility of performing both online and offline installations.
6. Other releases of the month: Linux Console 2019, NuTyX 11.3, Alpine Linux 3.11.0, Emmabuntüs DE2-1.06, Peppermint 10 Respin (20191210), 4MLinux 31.0, Minimal Linux Live (MLL) 15-Dec-2019, Robolinux 10.6, ArcoLinux 19.12.15, NomadBSD 1.3, Elive 3.8.1, Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.4-3, Tails 4.1, Elementary OS 5.1, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 and CAINE 11.0.

Conclusion

First, a happy new year 2019 for all readers, users and members of the Blog, and a successful start of year 2020. Rest, as usual, we hope this "useful little summary" with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for the month of December 2019, is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of and for «GNU/Linux».

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