November 2019: The good, the bad and the interesting of Free Software

Each time period (week, month, year) that begins and ends, leaves us in many areas of our life, important or striking things, both good and bad, that are worthy of remember or highlight, to get the most out of it or to avoid and / or mitigate future problems or difficulties. And on a day like today, in November 2019, it is good to review some things.

Therefore, we hope that this small publication about the good, the bad and the interesting, inside and outside the Blog «DesdeLinux» be very useful to prevent them from missing out on excellent content, news and facts from the world of «Software Libre», «Código Abierto», «GNU/Linux» and other topics related to «Informática y la Computación», and the «Actualidad tecnológica».

November 2019 Summary

Within DesdeLinux

The good

• usbrip: Open source forensic tool with CLI interface that allows us to track the USB devices used on computers with GNU / Linux Operating Systems, by reading the USB event history.
• GitHub: You have put the source code of Linux, Android and 6000 other open source projects important to humanity. The chosen location is a cave in the Arctic that would survive even in the event of a world apocalypse.
• Free software: A useful compilation of the best Free Software programs for our GNU / Linux Distros of the year 2020. Whose Top Ten includes the following free and open applications: Evince, Firefox, Gimp, Kodi, LibreOffice, Qbittorrent, Thunderbird, Shutter, Stacer and VLC.

The bad

• Facebook: Seeks the implementation of a new access interface that requires the user to take a video selfie, a new way to verify the identity of the users who register on the social network.
• GNOME: Continues its long development cycle for its robust and heavy Desktop Environment. For now, it offers the Community the general availability of the second snapshot of the next GNOME 3.36 development cycle, with an official release date for spring 2019.
• Microsoft: Windows is in an open race to assimilate the best of other Operating Systems and export its products to them. Achieving, among many things, keeping Windows as the holder of the largest market share of Personal Computer Operating Systems worldwide.

The interesting

• OpenTitan: An Open Source project by Google and other technology companies to develop robust, open source and secure chips for use in data centers, servers and peripherals installed in critical locations.
• Bill Gates: You have commented that “There is no question that the antitrust suit was bad for Microsoft and that we would have focused much more on creating the mobile operating system. Instead of using Android, you would be running Windows Mobile if it weren't for the "antitrust case."
• Internet of People: A concept that encompasses new technologies on the Internet that combine the concept of Internet of Things (Internet of Things - IoT) and Digital Payment. To offer a technology that allows devices to execute payments by themselves, without human intervention.

Outside DesdeLinux

• Kali Linux: Releases the latest version of its Distribution under the version number 2019.4. Version that includes Btrfs support during installation, a new theme and a "Kali Undercover" mode that makes the distribution's desktop look like the Windows desktop, among many other new features and fixes.
• LibreELEC: Releases the latest version of its Distribution under version number 9.2.0 (Leia). Version based on Kodi v18.5, and containing many changes and improvements to the user experience and a complete revision of the underlying kernel of the operating system to improve stability and expand hardware support, among many other new features and fixes.
• Devuan: Releases the latest version of its Distribution under the version number 2.1. Version that makes it easy to choose between SysV init and OpenRC at installation time. The distribution no longer offers ARM or virtual machine images, and the option to exclude non-free firmware is now available in the Expert installer, among many other new features and fixes.
• Other releases: Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.1, Knoppix 8.6.1, Zorin OS 15, Pardus 19.1, NomadBSD 1.3 RC1, Rescatux 0.72 beta 4, Oracle Linux 8.1, PCLinuxOS 2019.11, IPFire 2.23 Core Update 137, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Alpha 1, XigmaNAS 12.1.0.4, Project Trident Void Alpha, OpenIndiana 2019.10, NethServer 7.7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, FreeBSD 12.1, and MidnightBSD 1.2.

Conclusion

We hope you liked this useful little summary with the highlights inside and outside the Blog «DesdeLinux» for the month of November 2019.

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