Microsoft has confirmed that Edge will be available for Linux next October. Almost a year has passed since they announced that their Chromium-based web browser would be compatible with this operating system. Now, they just revealed that the first Linux preview for Edge will be available next month and will be downloadable from Microsoft Edge Insiders or from the native Linux package manager.
As we mentioned in our blog, the code of the Spanish application to track Covid-19 positive contacts in RADAR COVID was released last week.
Its Finnish counterpart became Open Source a few weeks earlier, at the end of August. This app for tracking and monitoring Covid-19 cases is called Koronavilkku and has been published under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2), which allows its reuse.
For the first time and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Open Infrastructure Summit will be held virtually. This popular event, organized by OpenStack Foundation, will take place from October 19 to 23. Users, developers and suppliers from more than 50 countries and 600 companies that build and operate with open infrastructures will meet.
Windows and macOS users willing to switch to Linux have a distribution at their fingertips that will make the switch a breeze: Zorin OS. It has been designed so that everyone can personalize their desktop to be as similar as possible to the one they use.
It is based on Ubuntu and on the same Open Source code used by the US Department of Defense and NASA, making it a solid and reliable system. It has advanced security features, is fast, and doesn’t slow down with updates. In addition, there is a Lite edition that promises to work quickly on computers up to 15 years old, so it can be a good option to give older computers a second chance.
The active group for the promotion and dissemination of free computing Pica Pica HackLab claims the use of free computing in the educational system. They appeal all the agents involved: Government, Ministry and Ministries of Education, rectors, directors, heads of studies, defenders of students and teachers; because they consider that it is now more necessary than ever due to the generalized scenario of distance learning.
During the first half of this year 2020, the security firm Trend Micro blocked 8.8 million cyber threats that took advantage of Covid-19 to infect computers. Spam through email was the main way used to carry out different types of fraud, accounting for almost 92% of the total.
This data comes from the report for the first six months of the year published by Trend Micro, which shows how cybercriminals changed their strategies since the beginning of the year to take advantage of the interest aroused by the pandemic around the world.
