Red Hat announced earlier this week the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, the first version of its enterprise Linux platform that delivers on the release cadence announced at Red Hat Summit 2019, with new versions every six months. The company has strived to improve the management capabilities, security and performance of this operating system.
Git 2.24 is now available. The developers of this Open Source project have just released a new edition of the version control system designed by Linus Torvalds. More than 78 collaborators have contributed to the development of its new features and bug fixes.
The UDS Enterprise team has published a new manual to guide all those interested in integrating our desktop and application virtualization broker with OpenGnsys, an Open Source physical equipment orchestrator.
The union of these two solutions allows make the most of the computers, enabling remote access to them during certain hours, for example during the hours that a company or educational organization remains closed to the public.
Thanks to UDS Enterprise, management and access control are performed centrally from a web browser. The system guarantees secure access from any location through any device with internet access. OpenGnsys helps to achieve important energy savings, since it allows to program the automatic switching on and off of the computers. Both solutions help IT professionals make fast and automated deployments of VDI environments.
Fedora 31 is now available for download. One of its most outstanding new features is Fedora Toolbox, a simple tool to start and manage personal workspace containers, which allows developments in an isolated environment. According to Matthew Miller, the project leader, this containerized workflow “is vital for users of the ostree-based Fedora variants such as CoreOS, IoT and Silverblue“, although it is also useful in any workstation or server system.
Intel has released a new version of Cloud Hypervisor, an Open Source virtual machine monitor (VMM) that runs on KVM. This new release includes support for vhost-user-blk backends. This allows users to plug av host-user based block device (for example, SPDK) to be connected to the hypervisor as a back-end of paravirtualized storage.
