As we mentioned in our blog, the code of the Spanish application to track Covid-19 positive contacts in RADAR COVID was released last week.
Its Finnish counterpart became Open Source a few weeks earlier, at the end of August. This app for tracking and monitoring Covid-19 cases is called Koronavilkku and has been published under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2), which allows its reuse.
For the first time and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Open Infrastructure Summit will be held virtually. This popular event, organized by OpenStack Foundation, will take place from October 19 to 23. Users, developers and suppliers from more than 50 countries and 600 companies that build and operate with open infrastructures will meet.
Windows and macOS users willing to switch to Linux have a distribution at their fingertips that will make the switch a breeze: Zorin OS. It has been designed so that everyone can personalize their desktop to be as similar as possible to the one they use.
It is based on Ubuntu and on the same Open Source code used by the US Department of Defense and NASA, making it a solid and reliable system. It has advanced security features, is fast, and doesn’t slow down with updates. In addition, there is a Lite edition that promises to work quickly on computers up to 15 years old, so it can be a good option to give older computers a second chance.
The source code of the Radar COVID application will be available to all users and developers next Wednesday September 9th. This has been confirmed by the Secretary of State for Digitization of the Spanish Government through Twitter.
At the end of this month of July, the development of a new Linux distribution will begin, which promises to be different from the rest. Serpent OS will challenge the usual conventions that Linux users are used to. In fact, it is not oriented to the masses, but to the most purist linuxers. It will be modular and optimized for modern machines.
UDS Enterprise has always been closely linked to educational environments. So it is not surprising that many students choose this software as the cornerstone of their projects. This is the case of three students who have completed the Administration of Computer Network Systems course at the Nicolau Copèrnic Institute, in Terrassa (Catalonia). Cristian Gallardo, Manuel Farfán and Marc Sisó have used UDS Enterprise for their Final Degree Project, which they have titled MCM & CLOUD. They have documented how to offer virtual desktops and applications through a web browser with UDS Enterprise and XCP-ng, the Open Source hypervisor based on XenServer.
