Denmark’s Agency for Governmental IT Services (Statens It) uses the Open Source cloud platform OpenStack to make its private cloud environment available to all state agencies. Thanks to this new infrastructure, the agencies have a test environment to test and develop new solutions.
Earlier this year Red Hat announced the purchase of CoreOS, a developer company, among other technologies, of Container Linux. This acquisition has laid the foundations for a new project: Fedora CoreOS.
If you are a user of Debian 8 Jessie and wish to continue receiving security updates, you must update to the latest version, Debian 9 Stretch as soon as possible. The previous release of this Linux distro, which was released in 2015 has stopped to have support and, therefore, will no longer receive regular security updates.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy of the United States has presented what they claim is the most powerful and intelligent scientific supercomputer in the world. It is called Summit and is able to perform no less than 200,000 trillion calculations per second.
Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to buy GitHub, the most popular software development platform to date, used by more than 28 million developers to exchange knowledge, share and collaborate on different projects.
The Raspberry Pi mini-computer has its own operating system, Raspbian, which is based on Debian and has been adopted by the project developers to ensure optimal operation with this low-cost, low-consumption device. But in addition to this OS, other systems can be installed. Here are some of them:
