Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 08 of the year 2024
To this eighth week of the year and fourth of the month of February (19/02 to 25/02) of the year 2024, as is customary, we bring you a timely Weekly summary solely dedicated to all the news and updates related to each of the existing and known free and open operating systems.
Of course, taking as a reference, the “DistroWatch and OS.Watch” websites, which are usually the most relevant in this aspect of the announcements of the releases of new versions and new GNU/Linux Distros, and other similar ones. So, without further ado, we leave you with this new summary with the «News related to the GNU/Linux Distros of the Linuxverse for Week 08 of the year 2024 ».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 07 of the year 2024
But, before starting to comment on each of these new GNU/Linux Distros releases that have happened in the «Linuxverse during Week 08 of the year 2024 », we recommend you explore a previous related post with this same series of publications, at the end of it:
Linuxverse distros that have been updated during Week 08 of the year 2024
FreeBSD 13.3 BETA 3
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: February 21th 2024.
- Download Links: FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3.
- Featured news: This new version called FreeBSD 13.3 Beta 3, now includes improvements, changes and corrections, among which some stand out such as lto improve the library libtacplus for tacplus.conf follow POSIX shell syntax rules and updated head and tail programs that now support options
-qy-vconsistently. And among many others, it incorporates several changes or solutions, among which some stand out such asa solution to the Kernel Panic problem that affected the net-mgmt/ng_ipacct port and another solution to invalid birthtime values generated by fusefs.
FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms that focuses on features, speed and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. And it is developed and maintained by a large community of developers. In addition, it is used by many companies, ISPs, researchers, IT professionals, students and home users around the world in their work, studies and moments of recreation. And finally, as of today, it includes more than 20.000 packages (precompiled programs already included for easy installation) that cover a wide range of areas. About FreeBSD
Ubuntu 22.04.4
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: February 22th 2024.
- Download Links: Ubuntu 22.04.
- Featured news: This new version called Ubuntu 22.04.4, like every maintenance release, includes the usual security updates and fixes for high severity errors, detected in previous versions of its root version, in this case, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. However, this release includes the incorporation of a new arm64+largemem ISO image for ARM servers providing un kernel with a page size of 64k, aimed at increasing performance at the cost of higher memory usage.
Ubuntu is a robust, friendly and very popular Linux operating system for desktop computers, which is also available for servers and other computing devices. In addition, being freely available it offers both community and professional (business) support, a Quick and easy installation with periodic releases and a balanced set of software. By lastYour community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto. About Ubuntu
antiX 23.1
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: February 22th 2024.
- Download Links: antiX 23.1
- Featured news: This new version called antiX 23.1, which corresponds to a maintenance or error correction version, includes the update of the usual ISO images of the completely free versions of systemd and elogind for 32- and 64-bit architectures, and with sysVinit and Runit; with new versions of packages. And among many other new features,Many internal scripts and applications have been modified and improved, includingsome new applications, such as:ntiX TV (antiX streaming TV receiver), antiX Radio (antiX streaming radio receiver GUI for MPV), Finder (simple yad script to search for files, installed applications, and web urls), among others.
antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy-to-install stable Debian-based Linux live CD distribution without systemd for Intel-AMD x86-compatible systems. The goal of antiX is to provide a lightweight, yet fully functional and flexible free operating system for both beginners and experienced Linux users. Therefore, dIt should run on most computers, from older computers with 256 MB RAM to powerful modern computers with ample hardware resources. However, 512 MB RAM is the minimum recommended for antiX, along with a minimum hard drive size of 7 GB. About antiX
Other interesting Distros from the Linuxverse updated in week 08 of 2024
And so as not to leave any out, it is also worth mentioning the official announcement of other well-known GNU/Linux Distros releases during this period of time:
Summary
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