March 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Interesting Inside the Linuxverse
Today, last day of March 2025»As usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this small and useful compendium of information, news, tutorials, manuals, guides and launch events related to the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux).
Some of which are from our website and others from some important global websites, which have occurred during said current month.
February 2025: The good, the bad, and the interesting inside the Linuxverse
But, before starting to read this post about current information on the «Linuxverse by March 2025», we recommend the previous related post from the previous month:
Some relevant web sources that we usually use for this series of publications are: Release log websites DistroWatch, OS.Watch, FOSSTorrent and ArchiveOS; and the websites of organizations such as the Free Software Foundation (FSF), The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Foundation (LF).
March summary 2025
Inside From Linux in March 2025
Good
Bags
Interesting
Top Recommended
- March 2025: Informational event of the month about the Linuxverse: A news summary about GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source of the current month that begins. (View)
- Apache NetBeans 25, introduces improvements in performance and functionality: These introduce a number of significant improvements to development environment efficiency, user experience, and more. (View)
- Rust for Linux has backers and Greg Kroah-Hartman is one of them: This Linux kernel maintainer has expressed his support for the use of Rust in the development of new kernel components. (View)
- PipeWire 1.4: New version with improved support for RISC-V, Bluetooth and JACK: Native JACK server implementation makes it easy to take better advantage of the PipeWire JACK Control API. (View)
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Focal: Adds VoLTE support, WPA3 compatibility, and more: This update has focused on preparing for the transition to the new LTS version of Ubuntu. (View)
- Nova: New Rust driver for NVIDIA GPUs coming to Linux 6.15: The driver has gained enough maturity to be proposed as a set of patches to be integrated into said Kernel. (View)
- Top Best AI Chatbot Desktop Clients for Linux in 2025: And among the top 5 AI Chatbot Desktop Clients on Linux are AnythingLLM, Bavarder, Chatbox, GPT4All and Jan. (View)
- What are GGUF files and where can I get them?: AI Models: A file GGUF is a binary file format designed specifically for fast loading and saving of AI models.. (View)
- How to install MX Linux in Dual Boot using a Windows computer with UEFI/GPT?Learn how to combine the power of Windows and the flexibility of Linux on a single computer with UEFI and GPT. (View)
- GIMP 3.0: GTK3, CMYK support, new tools, improvements, and more: An update that completely redefines the experience of the popular image editor and offers a great series of improvements. (View)
Outside of "From Linux" in March 2025
GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSSTorrent
- CachyOS 250330: March 30.
- Easy OS 6.6.5: March 29.
- Voyager 25.04-beta: March 29.
- Mauna Linux 24.6: March 28.
- KaOS 2025.03: March 28.
- linuxfx 11.25.04: March 28.
- Xubuntu 25.04-beta: March 28.
- Ubuntu Unity 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu Studio 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu MATE 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu Kylin 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu Budgie 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Lubuntu 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Kubuntu 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Edubuntu 25.04-beta: March 27.
- Ubuntu 25.04-beta: March 27.
- KDE neon 20250327: March 27.
- Q4OS 5.8: March 27.
- Zorin 17.3: March 26.
- ArcLinux 25.04.01: March 26.
- Bluestar 6.13.8: March 25.
- RefreshOS 2.25: March 25.
- emmabuntüs DE5-1.04: March 24.
- Deepin 25-alpha: March 24.
- RebornOS 2025.03.04: March 23.
- EndeavorOS 2025.03.19: March 23.
- Little Rescue 2.6: March 23.
- finnix 250: March 22.
- React OS 0.4.15: March 21.
- Runtu LITE 24.04 x64: March 20.
- Kali Linux 2025.1a: March 19.
- Basic OS 8.0.1: March 19.
- Rhino Linux 2025.2: March 18.
- Fedora 42 Beta: March 18.
- Debian 12.10: March 15.
- System Rescue 12.00: March 15.
- KDE neon 20250314: March 14.
- Calculate 20250313: March 13.
- TrueNAS 25.04-rc1 “SCALE”: March 12.
- Artix 20250310: March 12.
- Bluestar 6.13.6: March 12.
- Openmamba 20250312: March 12.
- FreeBSD 13.5: March 11.
- Univention 5.2-1: March 11.
- IPFire 2.29-core192: March 11.
- SparkyLinux 2025.03: March 10.
- MAX 12.0-20250307: March 10.
- peropesis 2.9: March 10.
- BashCore 25.03: March 9.
- Garuda 250308: March 8.
- FreeBSD 13.5: March 7.
- Volume 3.795: March 7.
- DynFi 4.04: March 7.
- Clonezilla 3.2.1-9: March 7.
- Accessible-Coconut 24.04-beta: March 7.
- Tails 6.13: March 6.
- CentOS 10-20250303: March 6.
- ExTix 25.3: March 5.
- Kumander 2.0: March 5.
- Starbuntu 24.04.2.3: March 3.
- Smoothwall 3.1-SP6: March 3.
- FunOS 24.04.2: March 3.
- GhostBSD 25.01: March 1.
And to deepen more information about each of these releases and others, the following is available link.
Featured news from the Free Software Foundation (FSF / FSFE)
- February GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali – 16 New GNU Releases!: This March 6th and as usual at the beginning of each month, this well-known FSF contributor informs us of the new (16) software releases of the GNU project that have been updated during the previous month, among which are the following: binutils-2.44, dc-1.5.1, diffutils-3.11, emacs-30.1, g-golf-0.8.0, gdb-16.2, emacs-30.1, g-golf-0.8.0, gdb-16.2, gettext-0.24, gtypist-2.10.1, inetutils-2.6, libtasn1-4.20.0, mtools-4.0.48, octave-9.4.0, parallel-20250222, r-4.4.3, shepherd-1.0.2 and which-2.23. (View)
Inetutils is a collection of common network programs, such as an ftp client and server, a telnet client and server, and an rsh client and server.
To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: FSF y FSFE.
Featured News from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
-
OSI endorses the United Nations Open Source Principles: Community United Nations open source (Open Source United) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced today (11/03/25) that the OSI has become the first organization to officially endorse the UN Open Source Principles. And as for theThe United Nations Open Source Principles that have recently been adopted by the Digital Technology Network (DTN) of the Executive Board of lthe United Nations It is worth noting that these provide guidelines to promote collaboration and adoption of open source within the United Nations and globally. (View)
The United Nations Open Source Principles consist of eight guidelines and provide a framework for guiding the use, development, and sharing of open source software across the organization.
To learn more about this information and other news, click on the following link.
Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)
-
(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 our “Blog From Linux”, for this third month of this year (March 2025), be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and dissemination of all free and open Technologies and Developments, inside and outside the Linuxverse.
Lastly, remember visit our «homepage» in Spanish. Or, in any other language (just by adding 2 letters to the end of our current URL, for example: ar, de, en, fr, ja, pt and ru, among many others) to find out more current content. Additionally, we invite you to join our Official Telegram channel to read and share more news, guides and tutorials from our website.