The last day of August marks the end of vacation for teachers and, in a few days, it will also be the end of holidays for students. Going back to school is always a bit tough, so to make it more bearable here are a few Open Source tools that make learning more funny and help avoiding the costs of traditional propietary software:
IBM unveiled a new platform for developers to collaborate with IBM on a newly released set of Open Source technologies. IBM will release 50 projects to the Open Source community to speed enterprise adoption and spur a new class of cloud innovations around mobile, analytics and other high-growth areas.
The platform is called developerWorks Open and it is a cloud-based environment for developers to access emerging IBM technologies, technical expertise and collaborate with a global network to accelerate projects.
The OPNFV Project, an Open Source platform to accelerate the introduction of new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) products and services, announced the availability of the community’s first software release: Arno.
It is a solution aimed at anyone who is exploring NFV deployments, developing Virtual Network Functions (VNF) applications, or interested in NFV performance and use case-based testing. This developer-focused release provides an initial build of the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) components of ETSI NFV architecture.
Today we sum up an article published in ZDNet that talks about Red Hat‘s oVirt potential and possibilities, standing out the University of Seville case study thanks to its integration with UDS Enterprise.
As the article explaines, oVirt is a free and Open Source project with huge capabilities and which is now a serious competitor to VMware’s ESXi and competing products, such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer or Proxmox.
The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual conference on free software and Open Source. For more than 17 years, software engineers, IT teams and developers attended this event to learn about the use of open source in real world situations.
This seminar is now an outstanding learning forum about Open Source best practices, strategies, tools, products, services and technologies and all implementation and configuration possibilities.
Many users are unaware of the fact that the Linux kernel developed by the Linus Torvalds team contains proprietary software to make it, for example, more compatible and universal with certain hardware.
So if we’d like to use GNU/Linux in a 100% free way , discarding these non-free added components, we should use some of the recommended distros by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that you can find in this link.
