January 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

January 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

January 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

In this first month of the year and penultimate day of «January 2023», as usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this little compendium, of some of the most featured publications of that period.

So that they can enjoy and share some of the best and most relevant information, news, tutorials, manuals, guides and releases, from our website. And from other reliable sources, such as the web DistroWatch, Free Software Foundation (FSF), Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Foundation (LF).

Introduction of the Month

In such a way that they can more easily keep up to date in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, and other areas related to technological news.

Posts of the Month

January summary 2023

Within DesdeLinux en January 2023

Good

Nobara Project: New version 37 of the Distro based on Fedora
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Nobara Project: New version 37 of the Distro based on Fedora
Pisi Linux: Everything about the end-user-oriented Turkish distribution
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MX GNOME: How to test GNOME Shell on MX Linux?
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MX GNOME: How to test GNOME Shell on MX Linux?

Bags

AI
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Study on vulnerabilities in the use of AI writing code
vulnerability
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A vulnerability in Netfilter allowed elevation of privilege on Linux
vulnerability
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They detected a vulnerability in sudo that allowed changing any file

Interesting

Pidgin: All about the instant messaging app in 2023
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Pidgin: All about the instant messaging app in 2023
Linage OS 20
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LineageOS 20 has already been released and arrives based on Android 13
Artificial Intelligence Projects 2023: Free, free and open
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Artificial Intelligence Projects 2023: Free, free and open

Top 10: Recommended Posts

  1. January 2023: GNU/Linux News Event of the Month: A small summary of the informative event on GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source, for this month of January 2023. (VIEW)
  2. Vanilla OS, a distro based on Ubuntu with GNOME to the natural: Vanilla OS is now stable and available for download to the general public. And it has great features. (VIEW)
  3. Google Assistant Unofficial Desktop: How to use it on GNU/Linux?: This development is a cross-platform desktop client project for Google Assistant usable on Linux. (VIEW)
  4. Microsoft Edge for Linux: Installation and current news: Last days on 12/22, Edge Web Browser was updated. Therefore, today we will explore Microsoft Edge for Linux. (VIEW)
  5. OpenVoice OS and Mycroft AI: 2 interesting open projects: In the wave of learning about new projects for this year 2023, we cannot miss mentioning 2 called OpenVoice OS and Mycroft AI. (VIEW)
  6. CarbonOS 2022.3 has already been released and these are its news: The new version of CarbonOS 2022.3 arrives celebrating 4 years of the project and along with it some important aspects have been improved. (VIEW)
  7. Merlin: A Web Browser plugin for using ChatGPT: Merlin is a great plugin for using ChatGPT on Firefox and Chrome based web browsers. (VIEW)
  8. Google says it wants to officially support the RISC-V architecture now: Google has already had an eye on RISC-V and has mentioned that it wants the platform to be on par with ARM. (VIEW)
  9. Libmdbx 0.12.3 has already been released and these are its news: The new version of libmdbx 0.12.3 comes with various changes and improvements that increase performance, as well as fixes(VIEW)
  10. DevOps versus Software Engineers: Rivals or Collaborators?: A new post about DevOps, but this time exploring its relationship with Software Engineers. (VIEW)

Outside DesdeLinux

Outside DesdeLinux en January 2023

GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch

  1. Archcraft 2023.01.01: 02/01/2023.
  2. DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0: 03/01/2023.
  3. Nitrux d5c7cdff (2.6.0): 04/01/2023.
  4. OpenMandriva Lx 23.01 "ROME": 07/01/2023.
  5. Nobara Project 37: 07/01/2023.
  6. FreeELEC 10.0.4: 15/01/2023.
  7. MX Linux 21.3: 15/01/2023.
  8. Plop Linux 23.1: 17/01/2023.
  9. laka 4.3: 18/01/2023.
  10. Legacy OS 2023: 20/01/2023.
  11. ArchLabs Linux 2023.01.20: 21/01/2023.
  12. peropesis 2.0: 26/01/2023.
  13. OPNsense 23.1: 26/01/2023.

To find out more about each of these releases and more, click on the following link.

Latest News from the Free Software Foundation (FSF / FSFE)

  • Join LibrePlanet 2023 behind the scenes as a volunteer: LibrePlanet 2023 is coming up very soon and it needs our help to make this world's leading gathering of free software enthusiasts a success. LibrePlanet 2023 will take place from March 18-19, 2023, both online and in person in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. And it will be the fifteenth edition of the conference that brings together free software defenders from all over the world, and we can be an important part of this celebration.. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: FSF y FSFE.

Latest News from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

  • The 2023 State of Open Source Report confirms that security is the main problem: For the second consecutive year, the organizations "Open Source Initiative" and "OpenLogic by Perforce" collaborated to launch a global survey on the use of open source software in organizations. And as a result, they got hundreds of responses from around the world, and once again, the results are illustrative of the open source space as a whole, including usage, adoption, challenges, and the level of investment and maturity in the software. open source. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following link.

Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)

  • Open Source Maintainers: What They Need and How to Support Them: The core mission of the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is to ensure the security and sustainability of widely used open source software projects. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is the digital infrastructure we all rely on. And maintainers play an important role in keeping that ecosystem functional, easy to use, and secure.. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: Blog, My Listings, Press releases and Linux Foundation Europe.

Summary: Various publications

Summary

In short, we hope this "small and useful news compendium " with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for this first month of the year, «enero 2023», be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and diffusion of the «tecnologías libres y abiertas».

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