Sony Pictures Imageworks has open sourced one of the tools used in the post-production process of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This is OpenColorIO, a complete color management solution geared towards motion picture production with an emphasis on visual effects and computer animation.
VirtualCable, the Company behind UDS Enterprise, a VDI and vApp connection broker, has announced through its website the compatibility of its software with OpenGnsys to provide authenticated access to remote PCs, as indicated in the University of Sevilla’s Communication Portal.
Netflix, the popular platform to watch series and movies online, is built with free software. The network of servers that allows users to watch online content at any time and from anywhere runs FreeBSD, a free and very powerful operating system.
Like every month, we’re collecting here the most read articles in our blog. This past January, our followers were first interested in the release of the new version of the VDI and vApp connection broker UDS Enterprise 2.2.1.
The next topic that aroused most interest was the Free Software University Contest called by several Spanish university centers.
In third position, the use of virtual desktops by the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) to resolve certain technical limitations and thus be able to successfully perform the public exams to the auxiliary staff of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.
The Government of France has launched an interesting initiative to promote the development of Open Source software nationwide. It is called “Blue Hats, hackers of general interest” and is a community made up of software developers and IT specialists from within and outside the public sector interested in contributing to Open Source projects promoted by the central administration.
One of the many innovations added to the new release of the UDS Enterprise connection broker is the support for the latest OpenStack versions. UDS Enterprise 2.2.1 allows managing and deploying virtual desktops and sessions of virtual applications with Pike, Queens, Rocky and Stein versions of the popular cloud orchestrator.
