Uber, the company that connects car drivers with passengers through a mobile application has become Gold member of the Linux Foundation. This company has also joined TODO Group, an open group of companies that collaborate in the development of tools and good practices for Open Source projects.
The developers of Deepin have announced the availability of a new version of this operating system based on the Debian Linux distro. They have taken into account the feedback from the user community and they have improved the performance of the system, for example reducing the ISO to 200MB.
The Spanish National Center for Curriculum Development in Non-Proprietary Systems (CEDEC) published an interesting list of free software tools extremely useful for teachers and students. These tools are listed in the following infographic:
Security researcher Sergey Zelenyuk has discovered a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox, the Open Source virtualization software developed by Oracle. This failure allows malware to leave the virtual machine and execute malicious code on the host OS that runs the VirtualBox process.
The Israeli company CompLab has developed in collaboration with the developers of the Linux Mint distro the Mini PC MintBox Mini, a small computer that allows to install different versions of both Linux and Windows, even start both OS at the same time.
The interesting Case Study of the Provincial Council of Jaén, which provides virtual applications in HA for 97 municipalities and 40 remote offices with UDS Enterprise has been the most read new in our blog during the month of October.
Next, our followers have been interested in the pairing of the NodeWeaver hyperconvergence solution and the UDS Enterprise VDI and vApp connection broker.
