The Government of Poland is increasing the adoption of Linux. The Social Insurance Institution of this country (ZUS for its acronym in Polish) has implemented an integrated virtualization solution for Linux servers. The installation and maintenance of this infrastructure is carried out by the Polish company Linux Polska. Over the next three years, they will provide 24×7 support to this institution.
The Open Source community in Africa organizes this week the I Open Source Festival in this continent. This event will bring together more than 800 people in Lagos (Nigeria), including developers, designers, students and staff from different organizations. They all have a common interest: support for the open source and free software movement in Africa.
A large number of public sector organizations rely on our connection broker for their desktop and application virtualization projects. Our software has been helping them for years to tackle the complexity of their IT infrastructure, achieving significant productivity increases and cost savings. Two of these projects have been selected by the prestigious @asLAN Association as candidates to the XII @asLAN Awards for Projects in the Public Administration.
The KDE team has announced the availability of a new version of the popular desktop Plasma, which comes with the last name LTS, which means that it has extended support. That is, Plasma 5.18 will be the stable version for the next two years. Of course, it will receive periodic updates to polish and improve its functionalities.
During the GitHub Universe 2019 event, two new and interesting projects were announced: GitHub Archive Program and GitHub Arctic Code Vault. The GitHub team has set out to preserve Open Source software so that it can be used for future generations. To do this, they are creating a vault in the Arctic, and have already begun to take the first steps to archive active public repositories on GitHub.
