For the first time, a VPN provider has open sourced the source code of all its Windows, macOS, Android and iOS applications. Proton is the company that has marked this important milestone in the history of Open Source. In addition, in a clear commitment to transparency and for the safety of its users, this company has announced that it is undergoing independent security audits.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will start using this year 2020 the Kopano email server and stop using Microsoft Exchange. This decision is part of the project promoted by this entity to migrate from proprietary software to Open Source alternatives. Another of the actions in this line is the launch of a new portal that will guide both its software developers and other users to contribute to CERN’s Open Source software projects.
Microsoft is going to release a security patch through Windows Update next March which will disable certain authentication mechanisms via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in Active Directory (AD), including the one used by UDS Enterprise.
As of that date, UDS Enterprise will only work with authentication via LDAPS (LDAP over SSL). Therefore, all UDS Enterprise administrators using the Microsoft AD authenticator in their VDI and vApp deployments must enable “Secure LDAP” (LDAPS) on their Active Directory server or servers.
The Red Hat community distribution based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code and designed for business use, CentOS 8.1, is now available for download. This new version incorporates all the news of RHEL 8.1 and some included in the previous release.
As you know, the UDS Enterprise and XCP-ng developer companies have been working together for some time to offer customers a highly competitive 100% Open Source VDI solution both technically and economically.
From the beginning, the XCP-ng community has shown great interest in the connection broker for desktop and application virtualization. The UDS Enterprise team receives daily requests to download the software, inquiries about its operation and about the integration with the hypervisor developed by Vates. Therefore, a few months ago we decided to open a specific thread in the XCP-ng forum on the compatibility of both solutions.
