Ubuntu’s new file system for LXC, UDS Enterprise’s full support for XenServer and the presentation by our team at CRUE-TIC & RedIRIS VDI Conference were the most read posts during the past weeks.
Below you can find the links to these articles so that you may have a look at them:
Ubuntu 15.04 will come up with its own file system
UDS Enterprise 1.7 fully supports XenServer
UDS Enterprise at CRUE-TIC & RedIRIS Desktop Virtualization Conference
Canonical has introduced LXCFS, its own file system for LXC, which will be released with the next version of Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Verbet.
It will be available with Apache 2.0 license and it will provide the possibility to view Linux virtual containers and CPU or memory, among other information.
In addition, it will allow to boot LXC on Ubuntu in processes with and without privileges, thus adding some level of security.
If you want to try it before the next Ubuntu version is released, you can download the code on GitHub.
Source:
Phoronix
The prestigious community of users LinuxQuestions has published the list of the best Open Source programs for Linux according to their surveys.
Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Slackware have tied in the category of best desktop distribution; while Android has achieved the first place among all mobile operating systems in the market with more than 56% votes.
Linux 3.19 has been released. We sum up below the main innovations that come with the latter version of the kernel:
–Graphics: support for the new Intel Skylake architecture (which will be released probably by the end of this year), incorporation of AMD AMDKFD driver and performance improvements in the TTM memory management. In addition, it includes support for Nvidia Tegra K1 tension control, for GM204 chip and it improves the frequency change control of memory in the GM21x.
The VDI architecture used by the University of Sevilla, the improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing an the new mobile virtual infrastruture have been the top 3 topics in our blog during the last two weeks.
Find below the links to these posts and have a look at them to find out why our followers have found them so interesting:
VDI architecture with oVirt, KVM & UDS Enterprise
Analysis: improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing
After VDI there comes VMI, the virtual mobile infrastructure
The Linux Foundation has released this week its second annual Guide to the Open Cloud, with a compillation of Open Source projects used by organizations to build from scratch its open clouds.
The report includes 18 new projects that are becoming increasingly important within the sector. Among them, we find oVirt virtualization platform and UDS Enterprise appears highlighted in this part of the guide (page 15) as one of the projects that actively supports this initiative endorsed by Red Hat. UDS Enterprise is compatible with oVirt and the use of both solutions, together with KVM hypervisor, enables you to deploy Open Source virtual desktops.
