June 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software
Today, penultimate day of "June 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).
May 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 «June 2023», we recommend the previous related post from the previous month:
June summary 2023
Within DesdeLinux en June 2023
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- June 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)
- Git 2.41 has already been released and these are its news: After three months of development, the release of the new version of the distributed source code control system was announced. (VIEW)
- Pot: A small and useful cross-platform free app to translate: A relatively small app in size, easy to download and install. Also, it is developed in JavaScript and Rust. (VIEW)
- Snagboot, an excellent utility to restore and flash embedded devices: Software that is intended to be a generic and open source replacement for specific tools already known. (VIEW)
- PyPI already implemented 2FA support: The transition was already completed a few days ago and through an announcement the developers also announced the decision to apply it to almost all accounts. (VIEW)
- Owncast, an open source live streaming and chat server: A self-hosted live video and web chat server that can be used with most popular broadcast programs. (VIEW)
- Asahi Linux now has support for OpenGL 3.1: A new enhancement for the Linux Distro under development created with the aim of migrating Linux to the new Apple Silicon Macs chips. (VIEW)
- Cinnamon 5.8 has already been released and these are its news: After 7 months of development, the launch of the new version of this popular desktop environment was announced. (VIEW)
- openSUSE Leap 15.5 has already been released, it arrives announcing that it will open another release before moving to ALP: Since, the developers decided to make another version 15.6 next year. (VIEW)
- postmarketOS 23.06 arrives with improvements in the environments and more: A new update of the Linux Distribution for smartphones that does not depend on hardware manufacturers. (VIEW)
Outside DesdeLinux en June 2023
GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch
- Nix OS 23.05: 01-06-2023.
- TrueNAS 13.0-U5 "CORE": 01-06-2023.
- postmarket OS 23.06: 07-06-2023.
- openSUSE 15.5: 07-06-2023.
- Ultramarine Linux 38: 08-06-2023.
- Proxmox 8.0 Beta “Virtual Environment”: 09-06-2023.
- Easy OS 5.4: 10-06-2023.
- Debian 12 “Bookworm”: 10-06-2023.
- Voyager Live 12: 12-06-2023.
- risIOS 38: 12-06-2023.
- SparkyLinux 7.0: 15-06-2023.
- MX Linux 23 beta 2: 15-06-2023.
- SysLinux OS 12: 18-06-2023.
- Emmabuntüs DE5 RC 1: 20-06-2023.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 SP5: 20-06-2023.
- Univention Corporate Server 5.0-4: 21-06-2023.
- Linux Mint 21.2 Beta: 21-06-2023.
- Proxmox 8.0 "Virtual Environment": 22-06-2023.
- Nobara 38: 26-06-2023.
- Proxmox 3.0 "Backup Server":28-06-2023.
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)
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EU: Majority in favor of the AI Law and guarantees for Free Software: The European Parliament voted today in favor of the AI Law with 499 votes in favour, 28 against and 93 abstentions. Free Software receives guarantees; these rules must now be upheld in the trilogue and transferred to the Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive. (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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The time has come to define open source AI: The lack of a shared definition of what open source AI means is also a problem for upcoming regulation, such as the European AI Law. One of the draft bills attempts to create exceptions for "open source AI," but no one knows what that means. The time has come for the community to define “open source AI”, for regulators, but also for developers, lawyers, researchers and end users. We need clarity to replicate the success of the open source software ecosystem in AI. (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 sixth month of the year (June 2023), be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and dissemination of the «tecnologías libres y abiertas».
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