Linuxverse News for May 2025: News Events
Today, May 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 April 2025: News Events
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for May 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
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Free Software – The U.S. Social Security Administration reverses identity verification policy that hinders freedom
In a victory for free software activists, the U.S. Social Security Administration has announced that it has reversed its planned usage policy that would require using a website that doesn't respect freedom or that would require a person to go in person to an office. For more details, the story of what happened originated when theOn March 18, 2025, the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that, as of March 31, 2025, any procedure requiring proof of identity must be completed in person or through its website for managing information related to Social Security (My Social Security (MSS). However, two days before the deadline extended (April 14), the SSA completely reversed the new policy and will instead “allow individuals to complete all types of complaints by telephone, supported by new anti-fraud features designed to protect beneficiaries and optimize the customer experience.”
This measure appears to be the result of continued pressure from many individuals and organizations who contacted the SSA with concerns that this policy would likely have resulted in a cut in Social Security benefits for thousands of people. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – May is Maintainer Month: Celebrating those who protect open source
Maintainer Month returns this May, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is proud to join GitHub and a global community of contributors in honoring those who manage and sustain Open Source projects. In 2025, Maintainer Month celebrates its fourth year with a clear and urgent theme: Securing Open Source. Throughout the month, OSI and our affiliates will highlight maintainers who prioritize security in their projects, sharing their stories and providing a platform for collaboration and learning. These initiatives are not just celebrations, but opportunities to recognize the essential role maintainers play in protecting the open source infrastructure that underpins much of our digital world.
El Maintainer Month is an event orOrganized annually by GitHub and supported by a diverse group of open source stakeholders, including us at the Open Source Initiative, Maintainer Month is a time to come together, share knowledge, and express our gratitude to those who keep open source projects running. Read more on the OSI Blog
GNU/Linux + BSD: Release of DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1
These first days of May, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project Dragonfly bsd, under the number of 6.4.1, according to him official announcement from its developers. And among its most notable new features (changes, corrections, improvements and additions) in this release are the following: The cHardware support for Type 2 hypervisors with NVMM, an amdgpu driver, the experimental ability to remotely mount HAMMER2 volumes, among many other major changes. Some of these include: Fixed an issue where the configuration file could be deleted during a PKG update. df-latetest.conf, making PKG unusable. And a fix for the problem of a memory leak in the legacy IDE/NATA driver that could easily cause kernel panics.
Download directly: DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1
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. And another, the use of virtual cores that allow a complete core to run as a user process to manage resources or to accelerate core development and debugging. Read more about DragonFly
More breaking news
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: KDE neon 20250501, Arch 2025.05.01, DragonFly 4.6.1, Dr.Parted 25.05, ALT 11.0 and Tails 6.15.
- Updated GNU Packages: man-db 2.13.1, libvirt 11.3.0, linux kernel 6.14.5, zfs 2.3.2, chromium 136.0.7103.59, dracut 107 and firefox 138.0.1.
Summary
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