Linuxverse News for April 2025: News Events
Today, April 2, 2025, as usual at the beginning of each month, we offer you our brilliant, timely and brief summary of some recent and outstanding «news from the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux)» up to the present time. And in which, we always take the opportunity to bring you much more information, with the aim that you can easily keep up to date with the «news event» which now begins.
For this reason, today we will be offering you 1 featured news related to each area of the Linuxverse. And finally, we will be mentioning The most recent known releases at the Distros and Software level for these first days of the month.
Linuxverse News for March 2025: News Happenings
But, before starting this present publication on the «news event for April 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
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Linuxverse News for April 2025: More Free Software, Open Source, and GNU/Linux + *BSD
April 2025: Linuxverse News Roundup
Free Software – A “free” tax return should be free in the sense of freedom, not cost.
The FSF taking the United States Government as an example, and more specifically to its government entity dedicated to tax collection (IRS), which has filed its Direct Filing Service (Direct Filing) which operates as a tax filing service that allows American taxpayers to electronically prepare and file their federal income tax returns at no cost, leaves us with the following reflection on this topic:
There are many reasons why it should be non-negotiable that taxes can be filed electronically with complete freedom (using free software), including: the application of higher levels of transparency, cybersecurity, accountability, and inclusiveness by governments. In addition, shorter repair times and longer service life should also be achieved, among many other benefits such as improved quality of life.affordability. Since, althoughFree software may not mean free by definition, it is understood that it tends to be more affordable, both for users and government entities, compared to proprietary software. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – How to gensure that open-source AI thrives under the new EU AI rules?
Durante el año 2024, la Unión Europea aprobó la Ley de Inteligencia Artificial (IA), la cual, está considerada como el primer marco legal mundial para la Inteligencia Artificial. Y en una parte de esta ley se exigía la creación de un Código de Prácticas para la IA de Propósito General para desarrolladores de IA. Por ello, la OSI en su momento solicitó participar en la redacción de estas normas, pero cuando les llegó el primer borrador, descubrieron algunos importantes problemas que impedirían su cumplimiento por parte de los proyectos de IA de código abierto. However, these have been resolved to date (April 2025) as follows:
On March 11, 2025, the third draft of the Code of Practice was published, making acceptable use policies optional and exempting Open Source AI from prohibiting certain subsequent uses. Consequently, These changes will allow open source AI developers to adhere to the Code of Practice, removing a major barrier to open source AI development in Europe. Read more on the OSI Blog
GNU/Linux: GoboLinux 017.01 Released
These first days of April, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project Gobolinux, under the number of 017.01, according to him official announcement from its developers. And among its most notable new features (changes, fixes, improvements and additions) in this release are the following: Update of some core operating system packages, including Linux Kernel v6.12.16, and others such as Automake 1.16.4, Dracut 103, E2FSProgs 1.47.1, Firefox 136.0,
FUSE 3.16.2, GCC 14.2.0, GRUB and GRUB-EFI 2.12, Kmod 33, LibArchive 3.7.6, among many others. Also, it now includes some new packages such as: CA-Certificates 2023011, Cpio 2.15, Fuse 2.9.9, NumlockX 1.2, Tree 2.1.1 and UnionFS-Fuse 2.1. Finally, among many others, some programs (Kernel, Initramfs, Firmware and Squashfs) have been changed to zstd compression, and support for eMMC storage devices has been added.
Download directly: GoboLinux-017.01-x86_64.iso
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Recent releases of GNU/Linux distros and free/open source software packages
And for this beginning of the month, there are also several releases of Distros and Packages reported by the DistroWatch website, quite striking and interesting, which correspond to:
- Updated GNU/Linux distros: PorteuX 2.0, DynFi 4.04-20250401, Dr.Parted 25.04 and GoboLinux 017.01.
- Updated GNU Packages: Curl 8.13.0, Qt 6.9.0. Plasma-desktop 6.3.4, Thunderbird 137.0, Llvm 20.1.2, Chromium 135.0.7049.52 and Libvirt 11.2.0.
Summary
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