April 2020: The good, the bad and the interesting of Free Software

This last day of April 2020, there's a lot news, tutorials, manuals, guides, or publications relevant or prominent in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, which will be very useful to review.

Therefore, as usual, we will begin our review of the publications that we consider the most documentsBoth good as bad, to provide a useful little grain of sand for all.

Consequently, we present to you below, our good summary on the good, the bad and the interesting, inside and outside the blog DesdeLinux intended to be of use to those who wish to keep up to date on our publications, and other topics related to Informatics and Computing, and the Technological News.

April 2020 Summary

Within DesdeLinux

The good

App Outlet: A universal store for GNU / Linux applications: An interesting application that allows us to centralize in an Online Store environment different and useful applications for our free and open Operating Systems, based on the new and different packaging formats (Flatpak, Snap and Appimage) available.
Stremio: A modern Multimedia Center as an alternative to Popcorn Time: A modern and functional Multimedia Center (Media Center), which provides a comprehensive solution for online multimedia entertainment, using useful plugins that are easy to install. And now, Free Code.
BleachBit 4.0.0: New version with improvements, fixes and changes: Multiplatform utility whose main functionality is to free space on our hard drive, very much in the style of the famous and practical "CCleaner" in Windows. In addition, executing the destruction of files to prevent their recovery, cleaning the free space on the disk to hide the traces of files deleted by other applications, among others.

The bad

Zoom do not support end-to-end encryption: It is discovered that the video conferencing service whose use exploded in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and which claimed to implement end-to-end encryption, does not actually perform the same for video and audio content, at least as the term is commonly understood. Instead, it offers what is generally called transport encryption.
Void Linux founder leaves project due to internal problems: Juan Romero Pardines (founder of the Void Linux project) resigned from the project because internal problems arose between the developers and that is because his resignation resulted in some conflicts arising with which the founder of Void Linux simply broke out and also caused a fight internal.
Zoom is sued by one of its shareholders for the problems they are currently facing: Since the revelation that the supposed end-to-end encryption was a sham. Now the ban on this video conferencing app has started, and the main reason is security and privacy issues that have been repeatedly reported.

The interesting

Mastodon: A Free, Open and Modern Alternative to Twitter: Mastodon rivals Twitter, and is part of a larger ecosystem packed with many more features or benefits. Therefore, many times it is also considered a Social Network that rivals Facebook.
Opensource.Builders and F-Droid: More Free Software Sites: Opensource.Builders and F-Droid, serve to spread and spread the use of our ecosystem of free and open applications. Although, they differ in that, the first is for Computers and the second for Mobiles.
UbuntuDDE, a distro that is working to be an official flavor: A trial version of the UbuntuDDE distribution, based on the code base of the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release, was recently announced. The distribution comes with the graphical environment DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment), and with the Ubuntu Software Center replacing the Deepin application store.

Outside DesdeLinux

Distros Releases

MakuluLinux 2020 “Flash”: 2020-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.8: 2020-04-02
Rescueux 0.73: 2020-04-02
NetBSD 8.2: 2020-04-02
ExTix 20.4: 2020-04-02
Ubuntu 20.04 Beta: 2020-04-03
Tails 4.5: 2020-04-07
AVLinux 2020.4.10: 2020-04-10
React OS 0.4.13: 2020-04-11
EndeavorOS 2020.04.11: 2020-04-13
Guix System 1.1.0: 2020-04-15
Deepin 20 Beta: 2020-04-15
Archman GNU / Linux 2020-04: 2020-04-16
Gobo Linux 017: 2020-04-17
Pop! _OS 20.04 Beta: 2020-04-17
Nix OS 20.03: 2020-04-21
Linux Lite 5.0: 2020-04-22
Lubuntu 20.04: 2020-04-23
Ubuntu 20.04: 2020-04-23
Ubuntu Studio 20.04: 2020-04-23
Kubuntu 20.04: 2020-04-23
Ubuntu MATE 20.04: 2020-04-23
Ubuntu Kylin 20.04: 2020-04-24
Xubuntu 20.04: 2020-04-24
Ubuntu Budgie 20.04: 2020-04-24
Manjaro Linux 20.0: 2020-04-26
Emmabuntus DE4 Alpha 1: 2020-04-27
7.8.2003 CentOS: 2020-04-28
Fedora 32: 2020-04-28

As usual, we hope this "useful little summary" with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for the month of «abril» 2020 year, is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of and for «GNU/Linux».

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