The Free Software Foundation (FSF) invites us one more time to reflect before going to buy our Christmas presents. In a year like this, in which technology has gained even more prominence due to the pandemic, this organization recommends that before buying gifts for our family or friends, we stop to think if the device that we are going to give respects their freedom and privacy.
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of a new version of Linux. The kernel version 5.10 is LTS (Long Term Support), which means that it will be maintained for at least five years. Among all the changes introduced in this new release, there are a lot of performance improvements. Regarding processors, performance support for AMD Zen 3 is included with other Linux performance additions and mremap performance is much more snappy on ARM64 hardware.
A new version of Ubuntu has been recently born. It arrives with an ambitious mission: to become the alternative to the Chrome OS operating system. And what added values does it offer to achieve it? An Open Source base and a commitment to respect the privacy of users as much as possible.
As every year around this time, The Linux Foundation (LF) has published its annual report, in which they review their most important milestones of 2020. They point out that this year more than 150 new communities have joined, related to open technology projects, open standards, open data and open hardware. Among them, the FINOS Foundation stands out. It is made up of specialists who create Open Source solutions for financial services.
As a result of the collaboration of its members, a total of more than a billion lines of code and 11,520 repositories have been generated. Each week around 12.5 million lines of code have been added and about 10.8 million removed. Among all contributors, they have detected 263,499 vulnerabilities .
During November, our blog has received countless visits from users interested in delving into the news published about our software and on the most outstanding topics related to remote working, eLearning, virtualization and Open Source.
The announcement of the new UDS Enterprise 3.0 version tops the list of the most read articles this month. This publication includes the main enhancements incorporated into this software for virtualization of desktops, applications and remote access to physical and virtual machines.
Canonical first published last year the ranking of the five most popular Linux applications based on snaps from the Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro and Ubuntu distributions. Now they have done the same exercise again to establish a comparison and be able to analyze how the patterns of use in these systems have changed.
