March 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

Today, penultimate day of «marzor 2023»As usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this small compendium, with some of the most featured publications of that period.

To make it easier for you to enjoy and share some of the best and most relevant information, news, tutorials, manuals, guides and releases, from our website. And from other reliable sources, such as the web DistroWatch, Free Software Foundation (FSF), Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Foundation (LF).

In such a way that they can more easily keep up to date in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, and other areas related to technological news.

March summary 2023

Within DesdeLinux en March 2023

Top 10: Recommended Posts

March 2023: GNU/Linux news event of the month: News summary about GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source for the current month that begins. (VIEW)
ActivityWatch: An app to track the activity of a computer: A free and open application that helps us arrecord what we do on a computer. (VIEW)
HopToDesk: Free and cross-platform remote desktop app: A free and open source remote desktop tool that is itself a fork of RustDesk. (VIEW)
Optimizer: A free, open and free optimizer for Windows: A advanced settings utility so users can restore their privacy and more. (VIEW)
Windowsfx and Kumander: 2 Windows-style GNU/Linux Distros: 2 strange and interesting GNU/Linux Distros with the visual style of Windows versions (11/7). (VIEW)
OpenAI will allow to integrate ChatGPT applications through an API: Which will give Devs access to AI-based language and text-to-speech capabilities. (VIEW)
Godot 4.0 Arrives with Major Compatibility, Performance, and More Improvements: Including Vulkan support and improvements to global illumination systems. (VIEW)
Thorium, fork of Chromium that expands its capabilities and performance: A Browser that is 8-40% better thanks to the inclusion of additional optimizations. (VIEW)
Snoop 1.3.7 arrives, the tool to search user accounts in public data: A forensic OSINT tool that searches sites, forums and social networks. (VIEW)
LibreELEC 11.0 Arrives Based on Kodi 20, Support Improvements and More: A new version to turn any computer into a multimedia center. (VIEW)

Outside DesdeLinux en March 2023

GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch

Mageia 9: 01/03/2023.
Linux From Scratch 11.3: 01/03/2023.
NutyX 23.02.1: 01/03/2023.
Ambian 23.02: 02/03/2023.
GarudaLinux 230305: 06/03/2023.
Little Rescue 2.4.2: 06/03/2023.
FreeELEC 11.0.0: 06/03/2023.
Siduction 22.1.1: 10/03/2023.
HelloSystem 0.8.1: 11/03/2023.
Kali Linux 2023.1: 13/03/2023.
Fedora 38 Beta: 14/03/2023.
Qubes OS 4.1.2: 15/03/2023.
Murena 1.9: 16/03/2023.
System Rescue 10.00: 16/03/2023.
Tails 5.11: 20/03/2023.
Trisquel GNU / Linux 11.0: 22/03/2023.
Proxmox 7.4 "Virtual Environment": 23/03/2023.
Ubuntu 20.04.6: 23/03/2023.
Slackel 7.6 "Openbox": 25/03/2023.
Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0: 27/03/2023.
UBports 20.04 OTA-1: 27/03/2023.
finnix 125: 28/03/2023.
OpenMandriva 23.03 "ROME": 30/03/2023.
Lubuntu 23.04 Beta: 31/03/2023.
Linux Lite 6.4: 31/03/2023.
MidnightBSD 3.0.0: 31/03/2023.

To find out more about each of these releases and more, click on the following link.

Latest News from the Free Software Foundation (FSF / FSFE)

Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Eli Zaretskii, Tad (SkewedZeppelin), GNU Jami: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today (18/03/2023) the winners of the 2022 Free Software Awards, which are awarded annually at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference to groups and individuals in free software who have made contributions significant to the cause of software freedom. This year's award winners are Eli Zaretskii, Tad (SkewedZeppelin) and GNU Jami. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: FSF y FSFE.

Latest News from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

OSI will hold the Licensing Clinic: The OSI is pleased to announce its Open Source Initiative Licensing Clinic 2023, which is an in-person event taking place on April 4 in Washington DC. This one-day workshop will cover advanced open source software licensing topics of interest to the US federal government, as well as emerging topics such as the confluence of AI models, licensing, and data. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following link.

Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)

Open source: separating fact from fiction: Open source software is ubiquitous, making up much of the software infrastructure that underlies the systems on which our society relies, from mobile phones to Internet technologies to automotive and homeland security systems. But as open source software has moved into the spotlight, particularly efforts to ensure the security and sustainability of the ecosystem, it's important to separate fact from fiction when thinking about open source and the best way to support and use it. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: linux foundation, in English; and the Linux Foundation Europe, in Spanish.

Summary

In short, we hope this "small and useful news compendium " with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for this second month of the year, «marzo 2023», be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and diffusion of the «tecnologías libres y abiertas».

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March summary 2023

Within DesdeLinux en March 2023

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