South Korea will save costs by migrating to Linux
The South Korean government will stop using Windows on their computers and will install Linux on all its devices, according to The Korea Herald.
Schools in India save more than $400 million by implementing Linux
Schools in the Indian state of Kerala will save around 428 million dollars using Linux as operating system on more than 200,000 computers. They will install a distribution based on Ubuntu developed by KITE (Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education). It is called IT@School and includes free and Open Source applications specially customized for students and teachers.
Barcelona will host for first time MoodleMoot Global conference
The Moodle event that has been held for years in Barcelona becomes international in 2019. This city will host next month of November the first edition of MoodleMoot Global in Spain.
All Chromebooks will support Linux out-of-the-box
Google has announced during Google I / O developer conference that all Chromebooks will be Linux ready out-of-the-box.Last year Google started to include support for Linux in some of these devices, but a program called Crouton was needed and the installation and configuration process was not that easy, so Linux was not really available for all Chromebook users.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now generally available
Red Hat announced yesterday at the Red Hat Summit in Boston the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the operating system redesigned for the hybrid cloud era and built to support the workloads and operations that stretch from enterprise datacenters to multiple public clouds. Some of its new features include:
New GNU Linux Certification course
The Security Sentinel website has launched a new GNU Linux Certification Course. The goal is to provide students with all the necessary skills to learn how to use and manage this operating system.