November 2024: News of the month about the Linuxverse
Today, as usual, at the beginning of each month, we offer you our great, timely and brief news summary about the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux) current. Which always brings you a lot of recent and relevant information, so that you can easily keep up to date with the «news events in the Linuxverse at the beginning of the current month of November 2024».
And just as we do at the beginning of each month, 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.
October 2024: News of the month about the Linuxverse
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for October 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
These first days of October, we have learned of the release of the new update of the free and open source Linux Raizo operating system project, under version number 15.24.10.01i. And about the Linux Raizo project it is important to highlight that, is a GNU/Linux distribution project that offers an operating system A live Debian 12 (Bookworm)-based, installable, and designed specifically for experimenting with system administration on simulated networks and real devices. It uses the GNS3 software, which serves as a graphical user interface for manipulating network and system simulators/emulators such as QEmu, Docker, and Dynamips. Live Root on DistroWatch
Linuxverse for November 2024: Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux
Linuxverse News Roundup: November 2024
Free Software – The OSAID erodes the meaning of «open source»
According to Bradley M. Kuhn, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) definition for The so-called Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) does not give freedom to users. And that is why, ydUnfortunately for the free software movement, OSAID has one particularly fatal oversight: It does not require reproducibility for large language models. Which, yesand adds to the inherent and already known problems with the term "open source" itself with respect to free software. It should be noted that it is officially known that eThe OSI’s stated reasoning for releasing this weak and sloppy definition now is based on the belief that “it made no sense to publish a definition that no existing AI system could currently meet.”
According to Kuhn and other characters, the OSI andIn its rush to capitalize on the hype and be used by industry, it makes the fatal mistake of leaving freedom behind and widens the gap between “open source” and freedom. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – OSI Announces Release of Industry's First Open Source AI Definition
This October 28th, and after a year-long global community design process, the official and final document on the Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) v.1.0 is available for public use. And the launch was announced at the All Things Open 2024 Conference, which aims to address common issues of interest to the global open source community. According to the OSI and other organizations and individuals, OSAID seeks to provide a standard by which public, open, community-led assessments will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be considered an open source AI. And precisely, this first stable version of OSAID is the result of several years of research and collaboration, an international workshop tour, and a year-long co-design process between relevant actors in the global open source arena.
“The co-design process that led to Open Source AI Definition Version 1.0 was well developed, thorough, inclusive and fair,” said Carlo Piana, OSI Board Chair. “We adhered to the principles set forth by the board, and OSI leadership and staff followed our directives faithfully. The Board is confident that the process has resulted in a definition that meets Open Source standards as defined in the Open Source Definition and the Four Essential Freedoms, and we are excited about how this definition positions OSI to facilitate meaningful, practical Open Source guidance for the entire industry.” Read more on the OSI Blog
GNU/Linux: Pisi Linux 2.4 Released
These first days of November, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project pisi linux, under the number of version 2.4. And among its most notable new features (changes, corrections, improvements and additions) of this release are the following:
- It comes with KDE Plasma 6, the latest version of the KDE desktop environment.
- It includes the use of the Wayland graphics platform and the Qt6 application framework.
- Prioritizes system performance and stability to provide a more productive work environment.
Pisi Linux is a Linux distribution based on the old Pardus Linux with its famous PiSi package management system. It is a desktop operating system with programs for listening to music, surfing the web and creating documents that aims to offer a modern, fast and flexible experience to any type of user. Pisi Linux is built from scratch on a stable base, but many key user applications such as the Firefox browser or the VLC media player are constantly updated. To increase the ease of use of the distribution, Flash player and many multimedia codecs are installed and preconfigured for immediate use. About Pisi Linux on DistroWatch
More breaking news
Recent releases of GNU/Linux distros and free/open source software packages
Today, and for this beginning of the month, several more releases are known so far, quite striking and interesting, which correspond to:
- Updated GNU/Linux distros: Dr.Parted-Live 24.11, TUXEDO OS 4 and 4MLinux 46.1.
- Updated software packages: GTK 4.16.5, MariaDB 11.4.4, Libvirt 10.9.0 and Linux Kernel 6.11.6.
Summary
In short, we hope this new roundup of news about the start of the «Linuxverse news events in November 2024», as usual, continues to help them be better informed and trained about the Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux.
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