Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 43 of the year 2024
To this Week 43 of the year and fourth of the month of October (21/10 to 27/10) of the year 2024 in the Linuxverse, we offer you our timely and customary weekly summary on the news of releases of Distributions based on Linux and BSD. Such as the SKUDONET, Parrot and AlmaLinux Kitten OS Distributions, which we will highlight this week.
And as you know, many of these release news we bring directly from the websites of «DistroWatch, OS.Watch y FOSS Torrent». While, from the website of «Archive OS» We mentioned at the end the announcements about the recovery and dissemination of ISO files of discontinued GNU/Linux Distros. So, without further ado, we will now address the releases of the «GNU/Linux Distros of the Linuxverse for Week 43 of the year 2024».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 42 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 43 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 43 of the year 2024
SKUDONET 7.2.0
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: 22th October 2024.
- Download Links: SKUDONET 7.2.0.
- Featured news: This new update called «SKUDONET 7.2.0», includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: It now incorporates new features such as an IPDS WAF module, geolocation support for WAF, Lua 5.2 support for WAF and highlighting language support for SecLang and Lua. Additionally, it offers improvements such as blocking the possibility of removing the default system certificate, disabling SSLv2 and TLSv1 by default on HTTPS farms, strengthening of backup action messages and requiring verification to run DHCP daemons when starting DHCP. Finally, farmguardian binaries are now saved in the backup, among many bug fixes to previous issues.
Skudonet is an operating system designed to function exclusively as a load balancing system and application delivery system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Originally derived from Zevenet, the platform provides HTTP and HTTPS connections for web applications, as well as load balancing services for TCP and UDP traffic. However, it is now an independent development that is available in both commercial and community editions. About SKUDONET
Parrot 6.2
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: 23th October 2024.
- Download Links: Parrot 6.2.
- Featured news: This new update called "Parrot 6.2", includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: The introduction and incorporation of a software utility called Rocket, which is a launcher for Docker containers written entirely in Python, which also uses a PyQt6 graphical interface and can also run on Windows and macOS machines. While, at the level of updated packages/apps, Chromium 129, Firefox ESR 128.3, Flatpak 1.14.10, VirtualBox 7.0.20, VLC 3.0.21, and Tor 0.4.8.12 stand out. Finally, among many others, it is worth mentioning that now the images created for the Raspberry Pi come with the Linux Kernel 6.6.43, while for the rest it is version 6.10.11.
Parrot is a Debian GNU/Linux-based distribution aimed at computer security, hacking and pen testing, which includes a collection of tools designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. It is developed by Frozenbox, and comes with MATE as the default desktop environment. About Parrot
AlmaLinux Kitten 10
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: 22th October 2024.
- Download Links: AlmaLinux Kitten 10.
- Featured news: This new update, called “Yet Another”, includes some interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: It provides support for many older (and some newer) CPUs thanks to the inclusion of binaries optimized for x86-64-v3 CPU architectures by default, but also for x86-64-v2 CPU architectures, but only for older hardware that does not support modern CPU feature sets. It also supports Secure Boot for Intel/AMD and ARM platforms. And finally, among many others, it includes support for SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) for both server and client applications.
AlmaLinux OS is an open source, community-driven Linux operating system that fills the gap left by the discontinuation of the stable CentOS Linux release. AlmaLinux OS is an Enterprise Linux distribution, compatible with RHEL®, and driven and built by the community. However, like RedHat with CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux Kitten 10 aims to be a new testing release for stable AlmaLinux based on the CentOS Stream code. For this reason, AlmaLinux OS Kitten is not a final product at all, but is intended as a vehicle along the path for the development of the next stable AlmaLinux release. About AlmaLinux OS and AlmaLinux Kitten OS
Other interesting Distros from the Linuxverse updated in week 43 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:
On DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSS Torrent
- Archcraft v24.09: 21 for October.
- Snal Linux 1.34: 21 for October.
- BluestarLinux 6.11.5: 23 for October.
Archive OS
Summary
In short, we hope that this Forty-third publication (week 43) of this series dedicated to «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2024 » I hope you liked it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest releases of the SKUDONET, Parrot and AlmaLinux Kitten OS distributions, which we have highlighted today.
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