Linuxverse News for June 2025: News Events
Today, June 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 May 2025: News Events
But, before starting this present publication on the "June 2025 news events", we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD and Linux-derived systems. It is based on the same ideals and APIs as UNIX and shares predecessor code with other BSD operating systems. DragonFly offers the opportunity for the BSD foundation to grow in a completely different direction than that taken by the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. DragonFly includes numerous useful features that set it apart from other operating systems in its class. Most notable is the use of HAMMER2, its own modern, high-performance file system with fast snapshots (with mount and write capabilities), compression, and deduplication. Read more about DragonFly
Linuxverse News for June 2025: More Free Software, Open Source, and GNU/Linux + *BSD
June 2025: Linuxverse News Roundup
Free Software – Summary of the FSD meeting of May 16, 2025
In this interesting and last meeting New approved programs have been accepted with license verification, for example, Anubis_captcha (a software tool that aims to evaluate incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI trackers) and Gnome_calls (a phone call and VoIP – SIP call handler). In addition, the list of programs has been updated with version updates or minor edits, such as GNU grep (A tool for finding text within files), GNU Diffutils (Software that finds differences between files), and GNU gperf (A useful hash function generator application).
Every week, free software activists from around the world gather at #fsf in Libera.Chat to help improve the FSD , a catalog of useful free software that runs on GNU-like free systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This summary summarizes the work done at the meeting on Friday, May 16, 2025, where a couple of new programs were added and several entries were updated.. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – A new project highlights the Open Source Initiative and Apereo Foundation's response to the White House on AI.
EThe commentary of the OSI Foundation together with the Apereo Foundation, I include the following contributions: Promote the development and adoption of open-source AI, Establish a common definition of open-source AI, and Promote a common data approach to AI development. Meanwhile, third-party comments highlight key contributions such as: Increase the Mozilla Foundation's use of open-source AI; Provide more government support for open-source AI development; Allocate more public computing resources for open-source AI development; and Preserve and promote open model development, open innovation as a strategic advantage, and greater and more effective transparency in the acquisition, development, and use of AI.
The Institute for Progress (IFP), an independent U.S. think tank focused on innovation policy, announced a new project highlighting responses to the Trump administration's request for public comment on what should be included in a national "AI Action Plan." The OSI comment with the Apereo Foundation was one of 33 comments highlighted in an initial release of the IFP database. Last week, the White House made all 10.068 comments public, and the IFP updated its database with an analysis of all submissions. Read more on the OSI Blog
GNU/Linux + BSD: Release of PorteuX 2.1
These first days of May, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project PorteuX, under the number of 2.1, according to him official announcement from its developers. And among its most notable new features (changes, corrections, improvements and additions) of this launch are the following: Changing the default NTFS driver from “ntfs-3g” to “ntfs3” (kernel native), including “VirtualBox 7.2.0 Beta 1”; and the correction of several minor bugs such as one within the Linux installer to make it language independentFinally, among many other improvements, support for "zstd" and "lz4" was added for the kernel's ZRAM; support for the global volume key in LXDE was also added; and a patch was added to LXDE to allow closing taskbar windows with a middle click.
Download directly: PorteuX 2.1
PorteuX is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware, inspired by Slax and Porteus, and available to the public for free. Its main goal is to be super fast, small, portable, modular and immutable (if the user so desires). It comes preconfigured for basic use, including lightweight applications for each of the 7 available desktop environments. It does not include a browser, but it does include an application store so you can download the most popular browsers, as well as Steam, VirtualBox, Nvidia drivers, office suite, multilib, messengers, emulators, among others. About PorteuX
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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: NST • 42-14476, AxOS • 25.06, Arch • 2025.06.01, KDE neon • 20250601 and Dr.Parted • 25.06.
- Updated GNU Packages: docker • 28.2.2, gstreamer • 1.26.2, firefox • 139.0.1, systemd • 257.6, NVIDIA • 575.57.08, sqlite • 3.50.0, pipewire • 1.4.4 and qemu • 10.0.2.
Summary
In summary, we hope that this new news summary on "The news and events of the Linuxverse for this coming month of June 2025", as usual, continues to help them be better informed and trained about the Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux – *BSD.
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