Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 47 of the year 2024
To this Week 47 of the year and third of the month of November (18/11 to 24/11) 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 GhostBSD, AlmaLinux OS and Rocky Linux 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 47 of the year 2024».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 46 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 47 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 47 of the year 2024
GhostBSD 24.10.1
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 18th 2024.
- Download Links: GhostBSD 24.10.1.
- Featured news: This new update, called "GhostBSD 24.10.1", includes some interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the most notable are: Updates to essential parts of the FreeBSD system and better hardware compatibility with some older AMD Radeon and FirePro GPUs. It also includes fixes for some live login issues with legacy BIOS, as well as fixes for some issues with Update Station functionality, which will continue to be fixed in future releases. Finally, in terms of security fixes, the following components have been updated: The urllib3 package from version 2.1.0 to 2.2.2 in /contrib/libcbor/doc/source, and the tornado package from version 6.3.3 to 6.4.1 in /contrib/libcbor/doc/source.
GhostBSD is a simple, elegant and friendly slow-rolling BSD operating system for desktops and laptops based on FreeBSD that offers a MATE desktop environment and few system packages for greater simplicity. However, it includes a selection of commonly used software pre-installed to facilitate your computing journey, and uuses the GTK environment to provide a beautiful appearance and comfortable experience on the modern BSD platform, offering a natural and native Unix working environment. About GhostBSD
Alma Linux OS 9.5
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 18th 2024.
- Download Links: Alma Linux OS 9.5.
- Featured news: This new update called "AlmaLinux OS 9.5", includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: Notable improvements with performance, development tools and security associated with updated module flows that offer better support for web applications and with new versions of the compilers that provide access to the latest features and optimizations that improve performance and allow better code generation. Also, it includes improvements in system performance monitoring, visualization and collection of system performance data. While, security updates are aimed at strengthening cryptography, and SELinux policies focus on enforcing stricter access controls. Also offering stronger encryption, which improves the overall security of the system.
AlmaLinux OS is an enterprise-focused, open source, forever free, community-governed and driven Linux distribution focused on long-term stability and a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is also binary compatible with the RHEL® Distribution. Additionally, for its management and development there is the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, which was established as a non-profit organization to manage the ownership and governance of the project. About AlmaLinux OS
RockyLinux 9.5
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: November 19th 2024.
- Download Links: RockyLinux 9.5.
- Featured news: This new update called "RockyLinux 9.5", includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: The update and improvements at the level of the Podman software tool (through the latest version 5.0) that offers faster boot times of the tool, and includes the Podman Farm functionality that facilitates the creation of cross-platform images, greater support for volumes in Podman kube play, Quadlet improvements and a higher performance default network stack. While, at the level of the Cockpit software tool (Web console for remote server management) the included update now offers file management capabilities through the Cockpit Files plugin. Finally, it includes a lot of new software like: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62, Node.js 22, GCC 11.5, Annobin 12.70, GDB 14.2, Valgrind 3.23.0, SystemTap 5.1, Elfutils 0.191, Libabigail 2.5, Performance Co-pilot 6.2.2, Grafana 10.2.6, GCC Toolset 14, LLVM Toolset 18.1.8, Rust Toolset 1.79.0 and Go Toolset 1.22.
Rocky Linux is a community-driven enterprise Linux distribution, so it's stable enough for larger companies to rely on it, and as evenly community-driven as possible to ensure it remains accessible to everyone. And it had its origins in December 2020, when Red Hat announced that it would discontinue development of CentOS, which had been a production-ready downstream version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in favor of a newer upstream development variant of that operating system known as “CentOS Stream.” What caused that, The original founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, announced the creation of a project to achieve the original goals of CentOS, under the name Rocky Linux, in honor CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. About Rocky Linux
Other interesting Distros from the Linuxverse updated in week 47 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
- KaOS 2024.11: November 19.
- Starbuntu 24.04.1.7: November 19.
- BluestarLinux 6.11.9: November 20.
- OracleLinux 9.5: November 20.
- Proxmox 8.3 “Virtual Environment”: November 21.
- SKUDONET 7.2.1 (Community Edition): November 21.
Archive OS
- Newton OS: 18 of November.
- OSMA Knoppix: 20 of November.
- copland: November 22.
Summary
In short, we hope that this Forty-seventh publication (week 47) 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 GhostBSD, AlmaLinux OS and Rocky Linux distributions, which we have highlighted today.
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