One of the first questions that arise when a user decides to switch to Linux is what distribution would be the most appropriate for him. There is such an amount that in most cases it is a somewhat complex decision. DistroTest was launched with the aim of making this choice easier and that those who already use Linux can test in a very simple way different versions to the one they have installed. This web allows to test online and for free nothing less than 706 versions of 225 Linux operating systems.
How to fix the typical issues of the environment of students and administration and services staff with a desktop virtualization infrastructure. This was the starting point of the interesting presentation offered by Xavier Pons, Head of the Infrastructure Area of the Information Technology Centre of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), at the RedIRIS Technical Conference held in Seville at the end of past May. He narrated the experience of the Information Technology Center (ITC) of the UIB in the management of their VDI platform, which has helped them to tackle the complexity of a heterogeneous and complex IT environment.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that they will stop using Microsoft software due to the high increase in the cost of licenses. In fact, they have a project called Microsoft Alternatives (MAlt) to find the most appropriate Open Source alternatives to the different Microsoft programs they currently use.
The National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) warns in an advisory to all administrators and users of Windows to check that their system is updated and patched against the latest threats. They refer to BlueKeep, a vulnerability of the remote desktop protocol of Microsoft OS (RDP) affecting Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
Like every month, in this article we’re collecting the publications in our blog that have aroused most interest among the UDS Enterprise community, so that you can keep an eye on the most outstanding news on Open Source, virtualization and VDI according to our own followers.
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