Linuxverse News for March 2025: News Happenings
Today, March 3, 2025, as usual, at the beginning of each month, we offer you our great, timely and brief summary of some recent and outstanding «news from the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux)» up to the present time. And in which, we always take the opportunity to bring you much more information, with the aim that you can easily keep up to date with the «news event» which now begins.
For this reason, today we will be offering you 1 featured news related to each area of the Linuxverse. And finally, we will be mentioning The most recent known releases at the Distros and Software level for these first days of the month.
Linuxverse News for February 2025: News Happenings
But, before starting this present publication on the «information event for March 2024», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
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
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Free Software – Free Software Advancement Award 2025: March 5th, deadline for proposals
Until March 5, 2025, proposals will be received from participants for the new edition of the contest sponsored by the FSF called “Award for the Advancement of Free Software”. This award is given annually to a person who has made a major contribution to the progress and advancement of free software through activities that are in keeping with the spirit of the community. However, at the same time, proposals can also be made for contestants to the FSF Award for Social Benefit Projects, which is awarded to a organization or team responsible for applying the principles of the free software movement to a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. And finally, also to the FSF Outstanding New Free Software Contributor Award, which is awarded annually to a newcomer to the community who has demonstrated outstanding dedication to software freedom. The recipient of the award must have made his or her first significant contributions related to free software in 2024 and show a pattern of continued activity.
The Free Software Awards are a perfect tribute to a particular free software volunteer or project that you care about their work and that they inspire you on your own daily journey to freedom. Take the time to show these special people and projects that you appreciate them by nominating them today. Read more on the FSF Blog
Open Source – Google Releases Gemma: An Open Source AI Model Available on Google AI Studio and More
Durante el mes de febrero pasado, el ámbito de las Inteligencias de Código Abierto se vio nuevamente sacudido con el lanzamiento de Gemma AI por parte de Google. And this latest AI model has been designed for researchers and developers looking for advances in AI, and is based on the foundations laid by its predecessor, Gemini. In addition, it aims to offer Safer and more equitable use of AI technology, under the open source model. Which is vital today, as the dissemination of large language models (LLMs) requires a responsible approach, and any measure aimed at strengthening the security of cutting-edge models, ensuring equal access to transformative technology, contributing to a thorough evaluation of existing methods, and catalyzing future advances in innovation is vital.
Gemma Google AI Studio is available in 2B, 7B, and 27B configurations. It maintains many of the technical attributes and infrastructure elements that underpin Google AI Studio. Gemini. Google states that the models Gemma They offer unmatched efficiency for their categories when juxtaposed with other affordable models. Try Gemma 2 in Google AI Studio
GNU/Linux: Ghost BSD 25.01 Released
These first days of March, we have learned of the launch of the new update of the free and open operating system project Ghost BSD, under the number of version 25.01-R14.2p1, according official announcement from its developers. And among its most notable new features (changes, corrections, improvements and additions) of this launch are the following: It is the GhostBSD 14.2 is the first release with a new versioning scheme and a commitment to absolute stability. In addition, with this release the development team for this project has moved from FreeBSD STABLE to FreeBSD RELEASE, so this release now rests on the foundation of version 1-RELEASE-p14.2, which is the first patched update to FreeBSD XNUMX. And this change, along with a transparent naming format, promises a smoother and more predictable GhostBSD experience. Finally, GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p1 now ships with the MATE 1.28.2 desktop, includes 2025 wallpapers, and offers better hardware support and general improvements.
Ghost BSD is a slow-rolling, simple, elegant, and friendly BSD operating system for desktop and laptop computers based on FreeBSD that offers a MATE desktop environment and few system packages for maximum 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
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Recent releases of GNU/Linux distros and free/open source software packages
And for this beginning of the month, there are also several releases of Distros and Packages reported by the DistroWatch website, quite striking and interesting, which correspond to:
- Updated GNU/Linux distros: Bluestar 6.13.5, Arch Linux 2025.03.01, AUSTRUMI 5.0.2, FreeBSD 13.5-RC1, Dr. Parted 25.03 and GhostBSD 25.01.
- Updated GNU Packages: Gnumeric 1.12.59 and Snapd 2.68.2.
Summary
In summary, we hope that this new news summary on «Informative events and news from the Linuxverse for this incoming month of March 2025», as usual, continues to help them be better informed and trained about the Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux – *BSD.
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