Registrations are now open to the XIV Free Software University Contest powered by the University of Seville and the University of Huelva. All university students, middle and upper grade students of the Spanish education system are invited to participate in this free software, hardware and technical documentation contest.
Red Hat announced earlier this week the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, the first version of its enterprise Linux platform that delivers on the release cadence announced at Red Hat Summit 2019, with new versions every six months. The company has strived to improve the management capabilities, security and performance of this operating system.
As usual, in this post we collect the most-read articles in our blog during the last month of October.
The new video tutorial that details the full installation and configuration process of our connection broker for Windows and Linux virtual desktops and applications has been the most visited post. You can read it in the following link: New video tutorial: How to install and configure UDS for VDI.
Git 2.24 is now available. The developers of this Open Source project have just released a new edition of the version control system designed by Linus Torvalds. More than 78 collaborators have contributed to the development of its new features and bug fixes.
Fedora 31 is now available for download. One of its most outstanding new features is Fedora Toolbox, a simple tool to start and manage personal workspace containers, which allows developments in an isolated environment. According to Matthew Miller, the project leader, this containerized workflow “is vital for users of the ostree-based Fedora variants such as CoreOS, IoT and Silverblue“, although it is also useful in any workstation or server system.
Intel has released a new version of Cloud Hypervisor, an Open Source virtual machine monitor (VMM) that runs on KVM. This new release includes support for vhost-user-blk backends. This allows users to plug av host-user based block device (for example, SPDK) to be connected to the hypervisor as a back-end of paravirtualized storage.
