The Government of France has announced that during this summer all the departments of this public administration will start using their own Open Source instant messenger service instead of the popular WhatsApp and Telegram. It is a measure to guarantee the sovereignty and security of their communications by themselves, which will be encrypted from end to end, without depending on private initiatives.
Apple has published the code of its distributed database FoundationDB in GitHub under free license Apache 2.0. The goal of the company is that the developer community can easily add new features, expanding the core functionality of the project through a layer system. For this purpose, they have also published compilation instructions for Linux and macOS systems.
This Thursday, April 26, the Goya Theater in Madrid will host the Enterprise Open Source Conference. This fourth edition of the event will focus on showing how the use of open technologies in companies favors transformation and business growth, as well as the increase in new opportunities for the future.
Microsoft continues to take steps to get closer to Linux supporters. The latest surprise was the announcement of Azure Sphere, an operating system , based on Linux, whose objective is to improve the security of the Internet of Things.
Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5. The latest version of this Open Source platform for the enterprise improves its base for hybrid cloud environments, reinforcing security and the control of compliance processes, and providing tools to reduce storage costs and improve usability. In addition, it goes a step further in the integration with Windows both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure.
Sometimes, after spending some time using Ubuntu, the system starts to slow down for no apparent reason. To solve this problem, you can modify certain settings and configurations that will provide greater agility. The suggestions included in this article are valid for most versions of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other distributions based on Ubuntu.
