Millions of IT professionals have been praising desktop Linux for ages for some reasons that privacy is a new one of them. Chrome OS and Android, for example, are Linux distributions, but they perform at full power only with an internet connection.
The POS is the lifeblood of a business, and that means you need to choose one carefully. There are a ton of options out there, but if you want to save money, adapt to changing business needs, and keep up with technological advances, you would be wise to consider an open source system.
People on the business side expect the company’s internal data center infrastructure to have the same scalability and cost of Amazon Web Services’ cloud. Leading-edge IT and enterprise expectations underscore these 10 trends expected to hit data centers in 2017, as curated by Milind Govekar, managing VP at Gartner:
Developers usually face the dilemma of choosing the Linux distribution that best fits the programming language they use, easy to setup and runs best Linux and that runs best in a virtual environment or on old hardware. In order to help to come to a decision, Linux developers from Toptal website have drawn up a list with the most recommended distros:
–Ubuntu: It is the easiest, supports most hardware and it is very friendly to people not used to work with Linux. The only snag is that it is quite heavy due to all the stuff that comes with and its Unity GUI is causing a lot of controversies between Linux users.
Issue tracking tools are crucial to manage any project workflow. They allow to detect, track and resolve bugs in a collaborative way. In this article we are going to talk about three Open Source tools easy to download and manage:
Redmine. It enables to manage multiple projects and integrates with many version control systems. It not only tracks issues, but also features forums, wikis, time tracking tools, and generates Gantt charts and calendars to track progress. Its configuration is fairly flexible, supports many databases, languages and can be customized. There is an online demo available to test this tool.
VDI golden images allow to deploy several virtual desktops based on a single base image. This configuration simplifies a lot desktop management but also complicates updates.
A VDI golden image contains an operating system and hardware configuration. Windows-based images can be managed using Microsoft Sysprep tool in order to clone the OS. The image usually contains also patches and applications, but applications can be also virtualized separately.
