October 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

October 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

October 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

Today, penultimate day of "October 2023 »As usual, at the end of each month, we bring you this small and useful compendium, with some of the most featured publications of that period.

To make it easier for you to enjoy and share some of the best and most relevant information, news, tutorials, manuals, guides and releases, from our website. And from other reliable sources, such as the web DistroWatch, Free Software Foundation (FSF), Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Linux Foundation (LF).

September 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

September 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software

In such a way that they can more easily keep up to date in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, and other areas related to technological news.

But, before starting to read this post about the news of «October 2023», we recommend the previous related post from the previous month:

September 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software
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Posts of the Month

October Summary 2023

Within DesdeLinux en October 2023

Good

LFCA/LFCS: What should we learn to be a Linux expert?
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Wireshark 4.2.0: What's new in the latest development version
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Bags

Marvin Attack
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vulnerability
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Interesting

VeraCrypt
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Top 10: Recommended Posts

  1. October 2023: Informational event of the month about GNU/Linux: A news summary about GNU/Linux, Free Software and Open Source of the current month that begins. (VIEW)
  2. Elementary OS 7.1 has already been released and these are its news: The network status indicator on the panel has been changed and handling of complex network configurations has been improved, among many others. (VIEW)
  3. Red Hat switched its issue tracking system to Jira: Which is a proprietary software product for project management, bug and incident tracking. (VIEW)
  4. Bpytop: An elegant and robust resource monitor for the terminal: A resource monitor for Linux/OSX/FreeBSD, which is the Python-based version of the BashTop resource monitor. (VIEW)
  5. Can you live on Linux? My point of view and personal experience: My personal opinion and own experience on whether you can make a living from Linux as an IT professional today. (VIEW)
  6. Savant, the Open Source video analysis Framework reaches version 0.2.5: Based on the new Nvidia DeepStream SDK 6.3, as well as improvements to adapters, encoders, and more. (VIEW)
  7. Android 14 is now arriving in stable form and these are its new features: With this new release and in true Google style, some new features of Android 14 are reserved only for the latest Pixels. (VIEW)
  8. Maintenance and update script for Debian 12 / MX 23: Some small command commands for Distros based on Debian 12 that you can include in your current or next Maintenance Script. (VIEW)
  9. System Monitoring Center and Mission Center: 2 Task Monitors: 2 more useful resource monitors, which are friendly, attractive and with many more functions, and similar to SysMonTask and WSysMon. (VIEW)
  10. GPU.zip, a new attack technique that allows data to be stolen by exploiting compression methods on the GPU: Exploitation of this flaw may allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to computers. (VIEW)

Outside DesdeLinux

Outside DesdeLinux en September 2023

GNU/Linux Distro Releases According to DistroWatch

  1. Spiral Linux 12.231001: 02-10-2023.
  2. Basic OS 7.1: 03-10-2023.
  3. Slax 15.0.3, 12.1.0: 05-10-2023.
  4. Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10: 11-10-2023
  5. EuroLinux 8.9 Beta: 12-10-2023.
  6. Ubuntu 23.10: 12-10-2023.
  7. Ubuntu Studio 23.10: 12-10-2023.
  8. Xubuntu 23.10: 12-10-2023.
  9. Lubuntu 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  10. Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  11. Unity 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  12. dubuntu 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  13. Ubuntu Matte 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  14. Ubuntu Budgie 23.10: 13-10-2023.
  15. FreeBSD 14.0-RC1: 14-10-2023.
  16. Window Maker Live 0.96.0-0: 15-10-2023.
  17. Slackel 7.7 "Openbox": 15-10-2023.
  18. Voyager Live 23.10: 15-10-2023.
  19. MX Linux 23.1: 16-10-2023.
  20. OpenBSD 7.4: 16-10-2023.
  21. Kubuntu 23.10: 17-10-2023.
  22. OS 23.10: 20-10-2023.
  23. FreeBSD 14.0-RC2: 21-10-2023.
  24. TrueNAS 23.10.0 “SCALE”: 25-10-2023.
  25. Alma Linux OS 9.3 Beta: 26-10-2023.
  26. FreeBSD 14.0-RC3: 28-10-2023.
  27. GhostBSD 23.10.1: 29-10-2023.

And to deepen more information about each of these releases and others, the following is available link.

Latest News from the Free Software Foundation (FSF / FSFE)

  • Fediverso Symposium – Recordings are now online: More than 70 people gathered in Cologne on September 22 to learn and talk about Fediverso and discuss the importance of decentralized social networks for our society. And for those who couldn't join in due course or those who wish to see the talks again, now the recordings in German are in our PeerTube instance. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: FSF y FSFE.

Top light GNU/Linux Distros for old and low-resource computers
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Latest News from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

  • The State of Open Source Survey is now underway!: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) organization is collaborating with OpenLogic by Perforce for the third year on the State of Open Source Survey. And this year the Eclipse Foundation also joined. The survey, which spans On November 10, it examines the use and management of open source software, including technology trends, challenges, and open source maturity. And the resulting data is used as the basis for the 2024 State of Open Source Report. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news, click on the following link.

Top 10 Discontinued GNU/Linux Distro Projects - Part 2
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Latest News from the Linux Foundation Organization (FL)

  • Navigating the open source landscape: The key ideas from the “World of Open Source: Global Spotlight 2023” report by the “LF Research” institution, written by Adrienn Lawson and Stephen Hendrick, with a foreword by Sachiko Muto of OpenForum Europe and RI.SE Research Institutes of Swedish, serves as an invaluable resource for understanding the current state of open source software (OSS) around the world. Downloading and reading the report will help you dig deeper into the key insights, gaps, and practical insights identified to understand the overall open source landscape in different regions of the world. (VIEW)

To learn more about this information and other news from the same period, click on the following links: linux foundation, in English; and the Linux Foundation Europe, in Spanish.

August 2023: The good, bad and interesting of Free Software
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Summary: Various publications

Summary

In short, we hope this "small and useful news compendium " with the highlights inside and outside the blog «DesdeLinux» for this ninth month of the year (October 2023), be a great contribution to the improvement, growth and dissemination of the «tecnologías libres y abiertas».

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