United States embraces Open Source software

United States embraces Open Source software

United States keeps on moving towards Open Source. Delivering on the commitment made in the Second Open Government National Action Plan, Government has announced a draft Federal Source code policy to support access to custom software code.

This policy asks for new software specifically developed for or by Federal Government and the commitment to share it with the different federal agencies so that they can re-use it. A portion of that new federally-funded custom code will also be released to the public.

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 released

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 released

SUSE has released SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, an enterprise solution for private clouds, which eases the work of IT administrators and controls the use of resources.

OpenStack Liberty-based, this solution makes it easier to manage private cloud infrastructures, providing Infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities to quickly deploy new business solutions and improve operational efficiency to data center.

Is antimalware software required on VDI thin clients?

Is antimalware software required on VDI thin clients?

Thin clients are one useful option for VDI access. Some of these devices don’t require antimalware software, as they are secure enough by their own.

But some others require extra protection in order to assure data and users security. One example are repurposed PCs as thin clients, since although they are not usually configured to run software locally, they are tecnically vulnerable to different types of malware.

Solus 1.1 released featuring interesting new features

Solus 1.1 released featuring interesting new features

Solus second release is already available for download. This Linux From Scratch based GNU/Linux minimalist distro features a lot of improvements, such as updates in its own desktop evironment, Budgie, fixing issues affecting icons, network and rendering. They have also dropped GDM for LightDM to get significant performance improvements.

Hardware optimizations have also been performed, updating Mesa, Xorg and Intel‘s driver for X11 to extend support to Broadwell and Skylake.

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