February 2024: Informational event of the month about the Linuxverse
Today, February 01, 2024, in this first publication of the current month, we wish, as usual, our entire faithful and growing community of readers and frequent visitors, a happy and successful start to the month. Additionally, and 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 that always offers us a lot of recent and relevant information. In order to keep up to date with the «informative event of the current month of February 2024».
And just as we did last month, we will be offering you 1 featured news related to each area of the Linuxverse, that is, Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux. And finally, we will be mentioning the latest 4 latest releases on DistroWatch / OS.Watch, and the 4 most recent Linux videos on YouTube, which are worth taking into account when it comes to keeping ourselves well informed and trained with the latest for this month that is just beginning.
January 2024: Informational event of the month about the Linuxverse
But, before starting this present publication on the «news event for February 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
Linuxverse for February 2024: Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux
informative summary of the Linuxverse: February 2024
Free Software: Twenty-two new GNU software releases in the last month
As is customary, the FSF at the end of each month has offered us a great balance, on the new program releases known within the official software created and endorsed within the GNU Project. And for this month of January 2024 there were a total of 22 new launches, which do include the following programs: Anubis (v. 4.3), a daemon that sits between the Mail User Agent (MUA) and the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA); AUCTeX (v. 13.3), an integrated environment for the production of TeX documents in Emacs; and GNU DDRescue (v. 1.28), a fully automated data recovery tool.
Finally, we inform you that the Free Software Award-winning project and the GNU package Jami is asking for your support. Cyrille Béraud, president of Savoir-faire Linux Inc., the company behind the Jami project, talks to us about the work that goes into its development, the importance of privacy in communication, and how the free/libre tool helps people communicate with confidence in freedom. Jami's mission is to provide everyone with free and secure communication software that respects your privacy. Please share the word and consider making a contribution to their cause.
Open Source: OSI board expands, focusing on AI and international policies
This February 2024, XNUMX, the Organization OSI (Open Source Initiative) has officially informed us that Professor Sayeed Choudhury and Gael Blondelle were chosen to fill the two new board positions due to their experience in areas that will be most relevant to the OSI in the coming years: AI and international policies. This in order to continue with the objective of expanding the board to give greater operational stability and continuity to said organization.
I am honored to join the OSI board, and I look forward to helping OSI on board more sponsors and affiliates globally. The work being done on defining open source AI is fantastic and we need an organization like the OSI to advocate for open source AI in an elaborate and well-articulated way. At the same time, we also have to defend the open source definition (OSD) which is regularly under attack from different sides. The OSD has enabled the development of open source technologies over the past 25 years, and we need to ensure this continues. Gael Blondelle, Member of the Eclipse Foundation
GNU/Linux: Release of SysLinuxOS 12.3
The last of last month (January 2024) has been released about the official announcement about the release of SysLinuxOS 12.3 version. And for those who don't know much or anything about SysLinuxOS DistroIt is worth briefly highlighting that this is a live GNU/Linux Distribution based on Debian (12/Bookworm) designed specifically for system administrators and integrators. Therefore, it focuses on offering a complete network environment that integrates several software tools (VPNs, Wireshark, Etherape, Ettercap, PackETH, Packet Sender, Putty, Nmap, Cutecom, Packet Tracer, and many more) under a graphical interface friendly using the MATE and GNOME desktop.
SysLinuxOS is updated to version 12.3 with the Linux Kernel 6.5. In this version, the numerous previous bugs have been corrected and improvements are incorporated to make it much more intuitive and easier to use. Many changes are under the hood, while others are aesthetic, and others improve the menu and system icons, both for the version with the GNOME and MATE desktop environment. In this update, I have excluded two or three programs in favor of others that I believe are more useful for greater interoperability. For this reason, I have added WoeUSB, Teams for Linux, Webex, Github Desktop, Wiregui, Timeshift, among many others.
More breaking news
4 GNU/Linux Distro Releases
- UBports 20.04 OTA-4: 30-01-2024.
- Tails 5.22: 30-01-2024.
- Vanilla OS 2 Beta: 31-01-2024.
- ArcLinux 24.02: 31-01-2024.
4 Videos and Podcasts about the Linuxverse
- How to install Dockge using Docker compose. (Video)
- Configure Load Balancing with Nginx using Podman Linux. (Video)
- VirtualBox, excellent virtualization tool. (Video)
- NeoVim vs Emacs. (Podcast)
Summary
In short, we hope this new roundup of news about the start of the "Linuxverse news event in February 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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