VMworld Europe 2016, one of the most eagerly awaited technological events of the year, is taking place from today to next Thursday 20th at Fira de Gran Via, in Barcelona. During these days more than 20.000 ICT professionals will gather at VMware‘s anual event, with more than 300 sessions scheduled about cloud, mobility, workplace transformation, security, hyperconverged infrastructure, network virtualization…
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.
In order to create virtual machines from oVirt engine web administrator, first we should set the following elements: Datacenter, clusters, hosts (oVirt Node or hypervisor), network (default ovirtmgmt is created), storage domain ( ISO storage and Data Storage ).
Then, we should follow these steps:
The Mozilla Foundation has granted over $300.000 to foster the development of Open Source project during the third quarter 2016. This initiative is part of Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program, designed to help developers in their projects related to Mozilla.
This time, 100.000 dollars were awarded to Redash, a tool to develop data visualizations that help organizations to make better decissions. Mozilla awarded $50.000 Review Board, a software to review web-based source code. These two softwares are used by Mozilla nowadays.
Linus Torvalds announced the availability of a new Linux version, that includes interesting news for current technologies. It adds, for example, a new driver for ARM Mali graphics for mobile devices, support for Raspberry Pi 3 SoC and for Microsoft‘s Surface 3 touch technology.
Linux 4.8 supports AMDGPU OverDrive, so AMD free drivers for GNU/Linux now support overclocking, although only graphics supported by AMDGPU are initially supported.
