Louisiana saves lives thanks to Open Source

Louisiana saves lives thanks to Open Source

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) is working with an Open Source project to evacuate citizens in case of dangerous storms or hurricanes.

With support from Boundless, they are deploying GeoSHAPE, a software designed for humanitarian assistance which helps identifying hospitals and other sanitary services at risk for flooding and damage from storms and hurricanes.

5 specialized Linux distros

5 specialized Linux distros

There are Linux distros designed to meet the specific needs of a single professional sector or a concrete group of users. In this posts we are listing some of them we found at Omicrono

Scientific Linux: A distro built by CERN and Fermilab scientifics who decided to create a special operating system for universities and labs worldwide. It is Red Hat Linux based and offers a stable and scalable desktop which enables the development of scientific applications.

VM clones and templates best use cases

VM clones and templates best use cases

Cloning a virtual machine (VM) and creating a VM template are similar processes, since both make it easier to build and deploy VMs, but they serve different purposes in a virtual desktops infrastructure.

A VM clone is a VM copy performed at a specific time, an exact copy of the latest saved version, with the same configuration settings and identifiers. This may cause interoperability issues. Each clone can be modified as needed while the original VM keeps the same, so new changes or new copies can be made.

Mobile World Congress 2016 around the corner

Mobile World Congress 2016 around the corner

Mobile World Congress 2016, the reference event for mobility industry, will be hold from next Monday until February 25th at Fira Gran Vía in Barcelona.

Important keynote speakers like Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, Simon Segars, CEO of ARM or Shang Bing, Chairman of China Mobile, will talk about industry’s latest and future trends.

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