Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 45 of the year 2024
To this Week 45 of the year and first of the month of November (04/11 to 10/11) 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 NethSecurity, Parted Magic and FreeBSD 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 45 of the year 2024».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 44 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 45 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 45 of the year 2024
NethSecurity 8.3
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 4th 2024.
- Download Links: NethSecurity 8.3.
- Featured news: This new update, called “NethSecurity 8.3”, includes some interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: Better centralized management of unit updates, thanks to the fact that it is now possible to seamlessly update the unit (packages and/or image); A page (section) has been added that offers a comprehensive real-time monitoring panel of the tool itself; and a new (paid) historical monitoring feature has been implemented that allows the user to see how the firewall behaves from the NethSecurity controller. Finally, the Threat Shield module user interface has been improved by incorporating a local block list, and logging and brute force protection settings, and brute force protection has been incorporated into the web interface. And a new NAT helper configuration page has been added to the User Interface, among many others.
NethSecurity is a GNU/Linux Distribution that offers a stable and highly functional operating system, under the a unified threat management (UTM) solution. Which, in turn, provides a complete set of security features, including firewall, content filtering, and deep packet inspection (DPI) using Netifyd. And also includes the Dedalo hotspot, OpenVPN and an optional remote controller. About NethSecurity
Parted Magic 2024_11_03
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 4th 2024.
- Download Links: Parted Magic 2024_11_03
- Featured news: This new update, called "Parted Magic 2024_11_03", includes some interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: The incorporation and use of Linux Kernel 6.11, Wine 9.0 with support for 32-bit and 64-bit programs along with Winetricks 20240105, to help install missing programs and DLL files. Also, a fix has been added to the ClamTK program issue that displayed the message that the definitions were out of date, even when it was not true. Finally, the HDD SuperClone 2.3.3 software tool has been added. Finally, other important user-facing programs have been updated, such as LibreOffice 24.8.2 and Firefox 115.16.1esr. And other OS packages like: bind-9.18.30, boost-1.78.0, cabextract-1.11, clamav-1.4.1, cups-filters-1.28.17, curl-8.10.1, espeak-ng-1.50, hddscviewer-1.0, libarchive-3.7.7, libmspack-0.10.1alpha, , libssh2-1.11.1, libvncserver-0.9.13, marisa-0.2.6, nvidia-driver-560.35.03, openobex-1.7.2, openssh-9.9p1, openssl-1.1.1zb, openssl-solibs-1.1.1zb, perl-5.34.0, zfs-on-linux-2.2.6.
Parted Magic is a small portable (live) operating system ideal for use on a CD-DVD/USB/PXE with the main objective of managing the partitioning of hard drives and other storage units. And for this, it makes use of software tools such as GParted and Parted as main programs, while, for complementary and secondary tasks, it offers other applications such as Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, among many other programs. About Parted Magic
What's New in FreeBSD 12.4 RC1 – FreeBSD with XFCE
FreeBSD 14.2-BETA2
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 9th 2024.
- Download Links: FreeBSD 14.2-BETA2
- Featured news: This new update called “FreeBSD 14.2” includes all the improvements, changes and fixes from versions 14 and 14.1 as well as a few new ones, including the addition of support for “GPIO _AEI events” and support for OpenStack networking configuration in nuageinit, plus a fix for the “text mode graphics” bootloader when starting the BIOS. Also, the ability to undo the -A option to NDP has been added, the Bell Pitchen Terminal fix in VT, and the Kernel Panic issue over SCTP has been fixed. And as usual, this new update is now available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures.
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. It has been continuously developed by a large community for over thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest websites and the most widespread embedded storage and networking devices. About FreeBSD
Other interesting Distros from the Linuxverse updated in week 45 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
- manjaro 24.1.2: November 4.
- peropesis 2.8: November 4.
- BluestarLinux 6.11.6: November 4.
- AUSTRUMI 4.9.9: November 5.
- LinuxFX 11.24.04: November 6.
- TUXEDO OS 4: November 6.
- UBports 20.04 OTA-6: November 8.
- SparkyLinux 2024.11: November 9.
- Debian 12.8: November 9.
- Debian Education 12.8: November 9.
- Starbuntu 24.04.1.5: November 9.
Archive OS
Summary
In short, we hope that this Forty-fifth publication (week 45) of this series dedicated to «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2024 » We hope you liked it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest releases of the NethSecurity, Parted Magic and FreeBSD distributions, which we have highlighted today.
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