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

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

Today, penultimate day of "November 2023 »As usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this small and useful 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).

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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.

But, before starting to read this post about the news of «November 2023», we recommend the previous related post from the previous month:

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Within DesdeLinux en November 2023

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1. November 2023: Informational event of the month about GNU/Linux: A news summary about GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source of the current month that begins. (VIEW)
2. FreeBSD Q2023 XNUMX Status Report Arrives: In which a large amount of quite interesting news from the Google Summer of Code stands out. (VIEW)
3. Audacity 3.4 arrives with Opus support, new features and more: Which includes new features like Beats & Measures mode, codec improvements, simplified stereo tracks, and more.. (VIEW)
4. Fedora 40 will say goodbye to the X11 session in KDE 6 and leaving only Wayland: In addition, it is mentioned that continuing to deliver the KDE Plasma 5 environment with an X11 session to Fedora 40 was considered inappropriate. (VIEW)
5. Windows 10 without support: October 14, 2025 Use GNU/Linux!: Here you will get 10 advantages and benefits of replacing your old Windows 10 with a modern and functional free and open operating system based on Linux. (VIEW)
6. Bashunit: A Useful and Simple Testing Library for Bash Scripts: Which seeks to offer a dedicated testing tool designed specifically to evaluate the operation of the various managed Bash Scripts. (VIEW)
7. LXQt 1.4 has already been released and these are its new features: Among which the PCManFM-Qt file manager stands out, which is now capable of providing the ability to define a command to call the terminal emulator. (VIEW)
8. XtraDeb: What's new and how to install it on Debian/MX?: XtraDeb is an unofficial Ubuntu initiative that aims to provide the latest software and game packages for the most current LTS versions. (VIEW)
9. Ghostfolio: An open source wealth management software:Un open source, web-powered dashboard that prioritizes privacy when managing personal finances. (VIEW)
10. Fedora 39 has already been released and these are its new features: Among which the use of the Linux Kernel 6.5 stands out, in which MIDI 2.0 support is introduced in ALSA, ACPI support for the RISC-V architecture and Landlock support for UML. (VIEW)

Outside DesdeLinux en November 2023

GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch

1. FreeBSD 14.0-RC4: 04-11-2023.
2. Fedora 39: 07-11-2023.
3. Clonezilla Live 3.1.1-27: 07-11-2023.
4. Relianoid 7.0: 08-11-2023.
5. UBports 20.04 OTA-3: 08-11-2023.
6. BackBox Linux 8.1: 09-11-2023.
7. NetBSD 10.0 RC1: 12-11-2023.
8. Alma Linux OS 9.3: 13-11-2023.
9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3: 14-11-2023.
10. Euro Linux 9.3: 16-11-2023.
11. pfSense 2.7.1: 16-11-2023.
12. OracleLinux 9.3: 17-11-2023.
13. EndeavourOS 11-2023: 20-11-2023.
14. RockyLinux 9.3: 21-11-2023.
15. Proxmox 8.1 "Virtual Environment": 23-11-2023.
16. rlxos 2023.11: 23-11-2023.
17. Ultramarine Linux 39: 24-11-2023.
18. OpenMandriva Lx 5.0: 25-11-2023.
19. Qubes OS 4.2.0 RC5: 27-11-2023.
20. Nitrux FEFC905B: 28-11-2023.
21. Univention Corporate Server 5.2-0 Alpha: 29-11-2023.
22. Ambian 23.11: 30-11-2023.
23. 4MLinux 44.0: 30-11-2023.
24. Nix OS 23.11: 30-11-2023.
25. Murena 1.17: 30-11-2023.

And to deepen more information about each of these releases and others, the following is available link.

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

• Sign the open letter for the right to install any software on devices: More than 100 civil society organizations from various sectors have already signed the FSFE open letter for "The universal right to install any software on any device." However, in the European Week for Reducing Waste they have extended the open letter to people individually. An ultimate goal of this is that users have the possibility of installing a Free Software operating system to mitigate software obsolescence and extend the useful life of the HW. (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)

• DPGA members participate in a workshop on defining open source AI: Currently, this workshop has resulted in a new preview version 0.0.3. Which contains a strong borrowing from the definition of free software and the structure of the GNU Manifesto. However, it still uses the definition introduced by the OECD in 2019 for lack of a better option. But uA surprising result came from a group that considered that the verbs “study, use, modify, share” in the draft definition are not sufficient and that new ones are needed for AI. (VIEW)

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

Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)

• Unlocking the Future of Financial IT: Key Insights from the 2023 Open Source in Financial Services Report: In this report offers a detailed look at the adoption, challenges, and future of open source in the financial sector. The report is a treasure trove of data-driven insights based on a global survey conducted from June to August 2023. (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.

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Summary

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

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