July 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software
Today, penultimate day of "July 2023 »As usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this small compendium, with some of the most featured publications of that period.
To make it easier for you to 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).
June 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software
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.
But, before starting to read this post about the news of «July 2023», we recommend the previous related post from the previous month:
July Summary 2023
Within DesdeLinux en July 2023
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Top 10: Recommended Posts
- July 2023: GNU/Linux News Event of the Month: A news summary about GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source of the current month that begins. (VIEW)
- Scrcpy: App to manage Android devices via USB and WiFi: To allow control of the device with the keyboard/mouse of the computer with GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. (VIEW)
- Genymotion Desktop 3.4: Now available! What's new since 3.2: The Android emulator for Linux, which stands out for efficiently emulating different types of mobile devices. (VIEW)
- LAION and Open Assistant: what are they and much more about both?: An organization in favor of the construction of a large-scale open Artificial Intelligence Network, and its ChatBot AI. (VIEW)
- Quetoo: A fun cross-platform FPS game in the Quake2 style: A game whose goal is to bring the fun of old-school deathmatches to a new generation.. (VIEW)
- bpftune, the new automatic BPF optimization system for Linux: Whose objective is to provide a light and usually active automatic adjustment of the behavior of the OS. (VIEW)
- For Fedora 39 they are preparing a new web-based installer: This proposal mentions that the installer web interface uses React JavaScript, PatternFly and Cockpit. (VIEW)
- Wolvic 1.4 arrives with improvements in the user experience and support: What's new about the successor to the Firefox Reality Browser, which also uses the GeckoView web engine. (VIEW)
- KDE neon is now compiled with KDE Plasma 6 and QT6: Novelty confirmed by the developers of the KDE Neon project during the presentation of KDE Neon UE. (VIEW)
- GCC released a code of conduct for developers: With which, they seek to reach a base to establish the rules for communication in their development community. (VIEW)
Outside DesdeLinux en July 2023
GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch
- Peppermint OS 2023-07-01: 01-07-2023.
- Fatdog64 Linux 814: 03-07-2023.
- Q4OS 5.2: 07-07-2023.
- Solus 4.4: 08-07-2023.
- blendOS 3: 08-07-2023.
- Linux Lite 6.6 RC1: 10-07-2023.
- void 20230628: 11-07-2023.
- Elive 3.8.34 (Beta): 13-07-2023.
- pfSense 2.7.0: 13-07-2023.
- MX Linux 23 RC1: 14-07-2023.
- IP Fire 2.27 Core 176: 16-07-2023.
- Linux Mint 21.2: 16-07-2023.
- Whonix 17: 21-07-2023.
- Mageia 9 RC1: 23-07-2023.
- Neptune 8.0: 23-07-2023.
- NST 38-13644: 23-07-2023.
- Zorin OS 16.3: 27-07-2023.
- 4MLinux 43.0: 27-07-2023.
- OSMC 2023.07-1: 29-07-2023.
- PCLinuxOS 2023.07: 30-07-2023.
- UBports 20.04 OTA-2: 30-07-2023.
- NutyX 23.07.0: 30-07-2023.
- OPNsense 23.7: 31-07-2023.
- MX Linux 23: 31-07-2023.
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)
- Law on Cyber Resilience and Free Software: Parliament dilutes its own position: On July 19, andhe European Parliament voted on its position on the Cyber Resilience Law (CRA). While his position now improves the Commission's exemption to protect free software, he fails to introduce adequate protection. Therefore, the FSF / FSFE calls on institutions to place the burden of responsibility only on those who benefit financially in a significant way from the market, while protecting developers and non-profit work. (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)
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Meta's LlaMa 2 license is not Open Source: OSI is pleased to see that Meta is removing the barriers to accessing powerful AI systems. Unfortunately, the tech giant has created the misconception that LlaMa 2 is "open source", which it is not. Even assuming that the term can be validly applied to a large language model (LLM) comprising several resources of different types, Meta confuses "open source" with "resources available to some users under certain conditions", and these are two very important things. different. Therefore, the OSI has asked them to correct their misstatement. (VIEW)
To learn more about this information and other news, click on the following link.
Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)
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To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: linux foundation, in English; and the Linux Foundation Europe, in Spanish.
Summary
In short, we hope this "small and useful news compendium " with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for this seventh month of the year (July 2023), be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and dissemination of the «tecnologías libres y abiertas».
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