Linux app virtualization with UDS Enterprise
UDS Enterprise 2.2 adds important new features regarding application virtualization. One of them is the support of Linux virtual applications.
Developers prefer Linux
Linux is the best operating system to develop computer programs. This is what the annual Stack Overflow survey carried out with more than 100,000 developers. A 48.3% of the surveyed developers claim to perform developments for Linux, compared to 35.4% that use Windows OS for coding. In third and fourth places are Android and iOS, thing that shows the rise of mobile applications.
UCLouvain: VDI with UDS Enterprise & OpenNebula
Frédéric Malengreau, Head of User’s Support Department at Université Catholique de Louvain:
“We needed a VDI solution compatible with OpenNebula and this task wasn’t obvious”
Since they already had a desktop and app virtualization infrastructure with UDS Enterprise in place, they were able to get a secure and efficient remote access system up and running for all groups in the University virtually overnight as a measure against Covid-19.
Running Linux programs in macOS with Karton
Karton is an Open Source solution, based on Docker, designed to be able to launch programs created for different operating systems. Actually, it allows running Linux programs in macOS, in other Linux distributions and in different architectures.
GitHub open sources Licensed to help choose licenses
GitHub has open sourced the code of Licensed, a tool that they used at GitHub for a long time to license Open Source projects. Now they have decided to publish it under MIT license, so that all the users of the platform can use it to choose the type of license that best suits their projects.