Linuxverse News – March 2026: News Events
Today, March 4, 2026, as usual at the beginning of each month, we offer you our brilliant, timely, and brief summary of some of the most recent and outstanding news. «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 – February 2026: News Events
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for March 2026», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
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Linuxverse News for March 2026: Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux + *BSD
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Free Software – Free Software and Our Freedom: Our Shield Against Many Digital Injustices, an Event with Dr. Richard M. Stallman
The FSF website, in a timely manner as usual, We are officially informed about an upcoming event to be held this March 9th with Dr. Richard Stallman, in Lecture hall at the Eastern Swiss University of Applied Sciences (OST) in Rapperswil-Jona. There, Dr. Richard Stallman will speak about practical and concrete measures we can take to preserve our freedoms.
Dr. Richard Stallman spearheaded the free software movement in 1983 and began developing the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifications. The GNU/Linux system (the GNU operating system with Linux as its kernel) is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social and Economic Improvement, as well as numerous honorary doctorates, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Biography of the Speaker
Open Source – Google Summer of Code 2026: Driving open source through mentorship
The Official OSI Blog, in a timely manner as usual, We are officially informed about a future edition (2026) of the event called Google Summer of Code (GSoC)And for this edition, the participation of u is estimatedA wide range of organizations, including many that are part of the OSI affiliate network. Furthermore, these communities represent the diversity and global reach of open source, encompassing infrastructure, programming languages, data, science, security, and creative tools. For example, among OSI affiliated organizations those participating in Google Summer of Code 2026 include Some examples include the Apache Software Foundation, the Debian Project, the Drupal Association, the Eclipse Foundation, the FreeBSD Project, the GNOME Foundation, Joomla!, the KDE Community, LibreOffice, and the Linux Foundation, among others.
For more than two decades, GSoC has helped thousands of developers make significant and sustained contributions to free and open source software, and its goals align closely with OSI's mission to promote and protect open source through education, collaboration, and community building. Therefore, heThe Open Source Initiative (OSI) is proud to highlight the event Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026It is undoubtedly a global program that continues to strengthen open source communities by uniting new contributors with experienced mentors.
GNU/Linux + BSD: Oreon 10-2603 Release
These first days of March, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project oreon, under the version number 10-2603And according to the unofficial launch announcement According to the DistroWatch website, the following new features have been announced: the replacement of the Anaconda installer with the Centrio installer (a custom installer developed by the project); the addition of support for NVIDIA driver detection and optional automatic installation during operating system setup; the ability to select the default web browser during installation with several options; and the inclusion of Flatpak as the default browser with the option to disable it during installation. Finally, among other changes, the update now includes selectable installation packages for office work, development, gaming, and more; an OEM configuration section in the installer for repositories and pre-shipped packages; and the change of the default file system from XFS to Btrfs with system rollback support.
Download directly: Oregon 10-2603
Oreon is a GNU/Linux distribution based on AlmaLinux, originating in the United States, that offers an operating system built to provide a stable enterprise foundation with long-term support until 2035. To achieve this, it uses a customized GNOME design to provide a familiar user experience for those migrating from Windows or macOS, without requiring extensive customization. Furthermore, its security lifecycle is covered throughout the entire project lifecycle. This means users can be confident that their system will be protected from security vulnerabilities for a long time. About Oreon Linux
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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: NetHydra 2026.01, FunOS 26.04-snapshot4, CentOS 10-20260302, d77void 20260302, Origami 2026.03, Security Onion 2.4.210, Venom 20260301, Genuen 6.0.0-beta, LainOS 2026.03.01, Berserk Arch 2026.03.01, KDE Linux 20260301, PimersusOS 20260228, Vendefoul 20260301, Puppy 2601-260301, Q83 13.06, AfagOS 20260301, AgarimOS 20260301, Arch 2026.03.01, GNOME OS 1007302, ArchBANG 010326, AV Linux MXe-25.1, Dr.Parted 26.03, Kiro 26.03.01.01,
- Updated GNU Packages: Opera 128.0.5807.37, Plasma-desktop 6.6.2, Texinfo 7.3, Libvirt 12.1.0, Shotwell 0.32.15 and Freetype 2.14.2.
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