Now that 2015 is coming to an end, Tecmint shares the 20 best Open Source software they have found during this year.
–SimpleScreenRecorder. You can use it to record audio and video.
–Jaspersoft Studio. To create reports with tabs, tables… and export them.
–Visual Studio Code. Ir provides a useful programming environment.
–TuxGuitar. To edit and play guitar tablatures.
Black Duck Software and North Bridge have unveiled their annual survey on the Future of Open Source. The results reflect an increasing adoption and highlight the great number of organizations which are contributing with the Open Source community.
The need for formal policies and management is growing as open source use becomes increasingly mainstream.
The Linux Foundation has launched a web series to bring awareness to the huge use of Linux in our everyday lives.
Under the title A world without Linux, these funny stories show the ubiquity of this technology while highlighting the importance of developers and supporting companies.
EMC keeps on moving towards Open Source. After open sourcing CoprHD project, announced at EMC World, they have just released RackHD under Apache 2.0 license.
In this way, this project can be improved by the community and vendors can include support for their infrastructure products.
If you are an IT administrator and you manage VMware vSphere virtualization platform, have a look at these useful tips:
-Don’t use Raw Device Mappings (RDMs). Try VMware Virtual Volumes instead, which is far less complex and more useful.
-See VMFS volumes and make sure they are upgraded.
-Use vSphere tags and categories. They help you organize virtual machines (VMs) in a customized way, considering elements not related to infrastructure. You can arrange them, for example, by production, development, off-site DR…
Nutanix Ready certification achieved by UDS Enterprise, the growing success of KVM Linux hypervisor and the integration of our multiplatform connection broker for Windows & Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) have been the most read posts in our blog during the last two weeks.
Find below the link to these topics in case you dind’t have the chance to read them yet:
