Although Linux is considered the safest operating system, it has recently been proven that it is not always safe from vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is important to adopt security measures that guarantee that the servers and users’ devices are well protected. For this, one of the first steps that should be considered is to protect the file system.
So far there is no Android device that comes without Google Services pre-installed from the factory. The developer Gaël Duval has proposed to end this practice and has launched a project in Kickstarter to raise funds to launch an operating system based on Android without Google.
Russia is another country that has decided to stop using proprietary software and enjoy the advantages of free software. The IT staff of the Russian Ministry of Defense will remove Windows from all the computers and, instead, install the Astra Linux distribution, developed by the Russian company RusbBITeh.
Canonical has announced that this Thursday, January 11, Ubuntu 17.10 will be available again on the official website since they have solved the problem that corrupted the BIOS of some computers when installing this new version and left them totally useless.
The developers of the oVirt project have released a new version of this Open Source virtualization solution, which they claim is more powerful and flexible thanks to the more than 1,000 individual contributions that have helped to improve the engine, storage system, networks, user interface and analytics.
In this article we are going to talk about the main features of the three best Linux distributions of this year 2017 according to a survey shared by OMG! UBUNTU!
