Linuxverse News – November 2025: News Events
Today, November 1, 2025, as usual at the beginning of each month, we offer you our brilliant, timely, and brief summary of some recent and outstanding events. «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 – October 2025: News Events
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for October 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
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Linuxverse News for November 2025: Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux + *BSD
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Free Software – The FSF announces the Librephone project
The FSF website very recently has officially informed us about his new project to give freedom to mobile phone users, which he has called «Librephone", and that it is nothing more than an initiative that seeks to overcome the obstacles that prevent the freedom of mobile phones in order to achieve its goal. Therefore, with this project, The FSF will now work to extend the right to mobile phones. studyito, modify, share and adapt the programs that users depend on in their daily lives. However, speaking very personally, I imagine that many would surely expect the FSF to announce the launch of an official, universal Linux distribution based on a new GNU/Linux metadistribution or an existing one. However, to the surprise (sad or joyful) of some, this announcement is more focused on the creation and use of a version of the Android operating system that, in the long term, will allow for a better understanding and reverse engineering of the non-free blobs used by virtually all current SoCs, instead of adopting and strengthening existing projects such as Gnome Shell Mobile on postmarketOS, Plasma Mobile, and why not, projects like Mobian or similar (like ubports /Ubuntu Touch) that are currently being updated and seeking to position themselves in this market dominated by Android and iOS.
“Forty years ago, when the FSF was founded, our goal was to provide an operating system that people could freely use on desktop computers and servers. Times have changed, technology has advanced, but our commitment to freedom remains unchanged,” said Zoë Kooyman, FSF Executive Director. “Much progress has been made in mobile phone freedom over the years, and we will build on that. The FSF is now ready to do what is necessary to deliver freedom to mobile phone users. Given the complexity of the devices, this work will take time, but we are accustomed to working in the long term.” Read more news on the FSF Blog
Open Source – From karaoke terminals to AI-powered resumes: The winners of GitHub's "For the Love of Code" challenge
El Blog of the platform «GitHub« It informs us about the results of your first competition called «For the Love of the Code»Designed to generate projects created purely for enjoyment, this initiative involved over 300 developers. While some relied on GitHub Copilot to refactor ideas, fix bugs, and find inspiration, or collaborated on existing projects, others worked alone, driven solely by caffeine and curiosity. Among the winners were: Plane Tracker from @cpstroum (A homemade radar that uses a Adafruit Circuit Playground boardBluetooth and the ADS-B Exchange API to obtain real-time flight data, thus turning nearby aircraft into a miniature radar display); Cadrephoto From @ozh (A photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and e-ink display that shows images sent to it by email, which also checks the inbox, downloads the latest photo and updates the screen automatically; and BuildIn From @SUNSET-Sejong-University and @lepetitprince99 (A virtual traffic light for your code that sits on your desktop, and works via an Arduino and the GitHub API, which makes it light up red, yellow, green or blue to show the build status of your repository at a glance.
In this first competition "For the Love of the Code" Participants were invited to build anything that brought them joy in six original categories, which were "Buttons, Beeps and Flashing Lights: Hardware Tricks, LEDs, Sensors and Endless Gadgets," "Terminal Talent: Command-Line Creations and Love Letters to Retro Computing," "Wonders of the World: Browser-Based Experiments, Apps and Interactive Art," "Change Agents: AI, Bots and Automation with Heart," "Let the Games Begin!: Games Big or Small, Serious or Silly," and "Anything But the Kitchen Sink: The Wild Card (If it doesn't fit anywhere else, it fits here)." Read more open source news on the GitHub Blog
GNU/Linux + BSD: Release of Shanios 2025.11.01
These first days of October, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project Shanios, under the number of 2025.11.01And although there hasn't been a official announcement Among the few known updates from its developers are the following: Updates to essential operating system packages and important user programs such as alsa-lib 1.2.14, bash 5.3, firefox 144.0.2, flatpak 1.16.1, glibc 2.42, gnome-shell 49.1, gtk 4.20.2, linux 6.17.6, mesa 25.2.6, nautilus 49.1, nvidia 580.95.05, openssl 3.6.0, plasma-desktop 6.5.1, python 3.14.0, qt 6.10.0, systemd 258.1, thunderbird 144.0.1, vlc 3.0.21, wayland 1.24.0, and xorg-server 21.1.20.
Download directly: Shanios 2025.11.01
“Shanios is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and of Hindu (Indian) origin that offers an operating system capable of Maintain two full copies of the system and switch between them atomically, thereby eliminating the possibility of broken updates and keeping the user experience simple and intuitive. For more details, It employs a blue-green deployment strategy using Btrfs subvolumes. This enables the system to deliver atomic updates via a custom deployment tool (shani-deploy), maintaining system integrity with read-only root partitions and providing enhanced security via AppArmor profiles, firewalld configurations, and full-disk encryption. Finally, it is important to note that since its first release in March 2025, Shanios has proven that unchanging reliability and ease of use are not mutually exclusive.". About Shanios
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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: HydraPWK 25.03.T1, Kiro 25.11.01.01, Dr.Parted 25.11 and Shanios 2025.11.01.
- Updated GNU Packages: pacman 7.1.0, shotcut 25.10.31, kodi 21.3, libressl 4.2.1, rust 1.91.0, and qt-creator 18.0.0.
Summary
In summary, we hope that this new news summary on "The latest news and updates from the Linuxverse for this coming month of November 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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