December 2020: The good, the bad and the interesting of Free Software
Today, wednesday 30 2020 December, with just one day from the end of this month and year, we wish all of you, our great global Community of readers and visitors, a happy, prosperous, successful and blessed new year 2021.
And as usual in the Blog DesdeLinux, this month we have spread many related news, tutorials, manuals and guides mostly with the scope of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, so today we will do a little review, for some of those outstanding publications.
This Monthly summary, as many of you already know, its purpose is to provide useful little grain of sand for all our readers, especially for those who did not manage to see, read and share them in a timely manner.
Therefore, we hope that this series of articles, on the good, the bad and the interesting, inside and outside the blog DesdeLinux is very useful, for those who want to keep up to date on our publications, and the topics related to the Informatics and Computing, and the Technological News, since, sometimes many do not usually have the daily time to see and read all the current month's news that ends.
December 2020 Summary
Within DesdeLinux
The good
- Proxmox VE 6.3 has already been released and comes with Backup Server support and more
- Concepts, readings and websites that every GNU / Linux user should know
- CentOS 8.3 has already been released and the founder of CentOS started the development of Rocky Linux
The bad
- Microsoft has begun to actively contribute to the development of Android
- Vulnerabilities in open source sometimes go unnoticed for more than 4 years
- Linux 5.10.1 arrives 24 hours after the previous release
The interesting
- GNOME Circle, an initiative for apps and developers to join the ecosystem
- Crypto: Let's make GNU / Linux great again! With a Cryptocurrency?
- Consume less, create more. It's more fun. Better if it's Free Software!
Other Recommended Posts of December 2020
- Guix 1.2: Package Management Tool Installation Tutorial
- XtraDeb: An excellent PPA repository of apps and games for Ubuntu
- LibreOffice Office Suite: A little bit of everything to learn more about it
- NetBeans 12.2 arrives with support for new features in Java, PHP and more
- Radicle, a decentralized collaborative development platform
- These are the winners of the 2020 Pwnie Awards
Outside DesdeLinux
December 2020 Distros Releases
- BlackArch Linux 2020.12.01: 2020-12-01
- Univention Corporate Server 4.4-7: 2020-12-01
- NetServer 7.9: 2020-12-01
- Manjaro Linux 20.2: 2020-12-03
- Raspberry Pi OS 2020-12-02: 2020-12-04
- T2 BDS 20.10: 2020-12-05
- CRUX 3.6: 2020-12-09
- Gecko Linux 152.201210: 2020-12-09
- Little Rescue 2.1: 2020-12-12
- Magic 8 Beta 2: 2020-12-13
- NutyX 20.12.0: 2020-12-14
- openSUSE 15.3 Alpha: 2020-12-16
- Univention Corporate Server 5.0-0 Beta: 2020-12-16
- Linux Mint 20.1 Beta: 2020-12-16
- UBports 16.04 OTA-15: 2020-12-16
- Q4OS 3.13: 2020-12-18
- KwortLinux 4.3.5: 2020-12-20
- 4MLinux 35.0: 2020-12-25
- Parted Magic 2020_12_25: 2020-12-25
- Download Deepin 20.1: 2020-12-25
Conclusion
As usual, we hope this "useful little summary" with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for the month of «diciembre» 2020 year, 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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