In May of this year 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force, which will be mandatory in all countries of the European Union. This new regulation will affect all companies, located in Europe or doing business in the EU, that handle personal information of any kind. Failure to comply with these regulations will be penalized with fines reaching up to 20 million euros.
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.
