December 2023: Informational event of the month about GNU/Linux
Today, as usual, at the beginning of each month, we offer you our great, timely and brief linuxer news summary with some of many recent and relevant information. In order to keep up to date with the «Informative event for the current month of December 2023».
And as usual, in it, we will offer a brief summary of the 3 most recent releases on DistroWatch, and in a novel way, the mention of the 3 most recent releases on OS.Watch, which are also worth taking into account when it comes to keeping ourselves well informed with the latest news for this month that has just begun.
November 2023: Informational event of the month about GNU/Linux
And, before starting this present post on the «information event for December 2023», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
Informational event for December 2023: News of the month
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Ambian 23.11
For this new latest version released, 3 of the most important and outstanding news included in Ambian 23.11 are the following, according to your official announcement on November 29, 2023:
- Included were fixes to numerous bugs to improve the functionality of Banana Pi CM4, and others related to managing display managers on all desktops. Also I know included experimental HDMI support inside of the Main kernel for RK3588, and experimental EDK2/UEFI support for RK3588 boards.
- Inclusion of standard support for new boards and equipment: Khadas VIM1S, Khadas VIM4, Texas Instruments TDA4VM and Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro.
- Lastly, the new editions for the daily image builds are based on Ubuntu Mantic and Debian Trixie.
Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is generally based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and is compatible with a wide variety of ARM devices, and many other similar/compatible ones. Additionally, it includes a menu-based configuration tool along with the standard Debian utilities, the Bash Shell, and the Cinnamon or XFCE desktop option. About Armbian
4MLinux 44.0
For this new latest version released, 3 of the most important and outstanding news included in 4MLinux 44.0 are the following, according to your official announcement on November 29, 2023:
- This first stable version of the 4MLinux 44.0 series includes the following updated office programs: LibreOffice 7.6.3 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), Firefox 119.0.1 and Chrome 119.0.6045.123, Thunderbird 115.4.2, Audacious 4.3.1, VLC 3.0.20, SMPlayer 23.6.0
- At the developer package level and its use in Servers, the updated programs were the following: LAMP 4MLinux Server (Linux 6.1.60, Apache 2.4.58, MariaDB 10.6.16, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33 and PHP 8.1.25. 5.36.0). And finally, Perl 2.7.18, Python 3.11.4, Python 3.2.2 and Ruby XNUMX.
- Also, updated to Mesa 23.1.4 and Wine 8.19, and added Mesa3D drivers that provide system-wide support for Video Acceleration API (VA-API). And includes QMMP, Media Player Classic QT, and Capitan Sevilla as downloadable extensions.
4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution that focuses on 4 features: Maintenance (as a system rescue live disk), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon) and for leisure and entertainment (providing various small games). About 4MLinux
Nix OS 23.11
For this new latest version released, 3 of the most important and outstanding news included in Nix OS 23.11 are the following, according to your official announcement on November 29, 2023:
- Includes 9147 new packages and 18700 packages updated in Nixpkgs. It also features 4015 packages removed in an effort to keep the package set secure and maintainable. In addition, 113 new modules and the elimination of 18 existing ones.
- The default version for the LLVM package set was updated to 16 (from 11) on both Linux and Darwin, introducing many new features and improvements.
- Now, it offers GNOME 45 “Rīga” which, in turn, includes a new image viewer, a new camera application and more changes.
NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the way system configuration is handled. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages, and configuration files, are all built by the Nix package manager. About NixOS
3 Latest releases of GNU/Linux Distros on OS.Watch
- Alpine Linux 3.18.5: 01-12-2023.
- openmediavault 6.9.9: 01-12-2023.
- Proxmox 3.1 "Backup Server": 30-11-2023.
Summary
In short, we hope this new roundup of news about the start of the «information event for December 2023», as usual, continues to help them be better informed and trained about the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux).
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