June 2023: GNU/Linux news event of the month
Today, the 03rd of this month, we offer you, as usual, a great publication with a timely and brief summary of some of the linux news of the month which starts. In order to keep up to date with the "informative event of June 2023".
And as usual, it will offer 3 recent news to explore, 3 alternative distros to know, plus a current Videotutorial y Linux Podcast, for a better understanding of what is currently being disseminated and shared on our GNU/Linux scope.
May 2023: GNU/Linux News Event of the Month
And, before starting this present post on the «Informative event of June 2023», we recommend you explore another previous related post:
Informative event of June 2023: News of the month
news updates from toinformative event of June 2023
NixOS 23.05 released
The first release registered in DistroWatch for this current month is about Nix OS 23.05. It is worth noting that NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux Distro that brings linux innovations especially with respect to how to handle all the configuration and management of the operating system.
And as for the novelties of this new mid-year version, we can mention that it includes numerous new and updated packages. For example, lThe default version of Nix was updated from version 2.11 to version 2.13. In particular, this includes a small language alteration to the way floats are rendered in builtins.toJSON. The default Linux Kernel was upgraded from version 5.15 to version 6.1. And among many other things, Systemd has been upgraded from version 252 to version 253.
"The NixOS Release Team is pleased to announce a new version of NixOS. The release is called NixOS 23.05 (“Stoat”). NixOS is a Linux distribution, the package set of which can also be used on other Linux and macOS systems. Support is planned until the end of December 2023, moving to NixOS 23.11". Oficial announcement
Throwing of TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U5
The second release registered in DistroWatch for the current month is about TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U5. It is worth noting that TrueNAS is a small FreeBSD-based operating system which offers excellent Network Attached Storage (NAS) services such as CIFS, FTP and NFS.
Meanwhile, TrueNAS 13.0-U4 has been considered the highest quality version in the history of TrueNAS and therefore the most implemented, eThis new version includes approximately 60 new bug fixes, including improvements to NFS, SMB, and replication. In addition, includes significant new components and offers improved performance, scalability, and reliability compared to the previous major release, TrueNAS 12.0.
"A strong indicator of the quality of TrueNAS 13.0 is that there are less than 10 bug fixes and improvements currently planned for 13.0-U6. We recommend that all TrueNAS 12.0 and TrueNAS 11.3 users update their systems to TrueNAS 13.0 before attempting to resolve any software or performance issues.". Oficial announcement
MX Linux 23 Beta 1 Release
This release was the penultimate one recorded on DistroWatch for last month, but since MX Linux is one of several Distros that we tend to mention a lot here at DesdeLinux and it is number 1 on DistroWatch for many years, we are not going to fail to mention the most important news in this regard.
And among the outstanding novelties included are the following: It is the first development version of the future stable version MX-23, which is built from the Debian 12 “Bookworm” and MX repositories. However, it will still keep sysVinit by default, while Systemd remains an available option for installed operating systems. Also, his toolset called MX Tools has been updated with bug fixes and improvements. And it comes available with Xfce 4.18, Fluxbox 1.3.7 or KDE/plasma 5.27.
“In this version, the very popular tool called MX Snapshot has received many changes to help users customize their Respin boot options while automatically filtering out options that could prevent the created live system from booting on different machines. ”. Oficial announcement
Alternative and interesting distros to discover this month
Recommended video of the month
Recommended Podcast of the Month
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The 24H24L Talks: Administration in GNU/Linux (version 2023): listen here.
Summary
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