Microsoft announces Azure Service Fabric for Linux

Microsoft announces Azure Service Fabric for Linux

Microsoft has announced that the preview of Azure Service Fabric for Linux will be available on September 26, during the Microsoft Ignite Conference that will be held in Atlanta (EEUU). This announcement means that Service Fabric clusters in Azure can be provisioned using Linux as host operating system and deploy Java applications in Service Fabric clusters. Initially, Service Fabric for Linux will be available for Ubuntu and it will also support RHEL soon.

Italian military moves to Open Source

Italian military moves to Open Source

The italian military is going to be the european administration to make the largest transition to Open Source software. During the next four years, more than 100.000 PCs will migrate to LibreOffice as part of LibreDifesa project, which will save 26 to 29 millon euros to italian administration.

The main reasons for the military to perform this move are interoperability and long-term accesibility of documents and information. The army of this country is standardising on the Open Document Format (ODF) and is advising its users to use free fonts.

KDE Project presents a new app shop

KDE Project presents a new app shop

The last Akademy event organized by KDE Project introduced plenty of news, like the KDE Store, an online shop where you can buy software and other elements related to the environment through a platform based on OpenDesktop and free sharing.

OpenDesktop’s source code has been released under AGPL license and KDE has used it to build a new application shop, where you can donate to developers, artists…

Red Hat unveils new Linux container portfolio

Red Hat unveils new Linux container portfolio

Red Hat announced during Red Hat Summit 2016 a new set of Linux container solutions for the enterprise, including free development tools, a comprehensive container platform that integrates management, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS).

This new offering enables customers to leverage the full benefits of containerization with more secure, portable and consistent container-based solutions, supporting key open standards such as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) container format and Kubernetes orchestration.

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