Ramón Gómez Labrador, from the University of Seville, talked during RedIRIS Technical Conference held in Santander last June about the progress made in the OpenGnsys Project, developed by several Spanish Public Universities. Labrador explained that they are about to launch a new version of this system that allows the distribution, installation and deployment of different operating systems. The beta of the version 1.1.0 has been available since last July and the stable version will be released soon.
Open Source technology is booming, as more and more public and private companies and organizations rely on this type of software for their applications, automation infrastructures and other critical business functions. During the first half of 2017, manufacturers such as Red Hat, Puppet, Kubernetes or VirtualCable have released new products or interesting updates of the existing ones:
The OpenStack Community has recently announced a new version of the cloud orchestrator: OpenStack Pike. The most interesting improvements introduced in this new release include new lifecycle management tolos and commercial delivery models including private-cloud-as-a-service.
It’s hard to dispute LibreOffice Writer‘s position at the top of the free and Open Source word processor food chain—both in popularity and in the number of features it has. That said, Writer isn’t everyone’s favorite word processor or their go-to application for writing.
If you’re in the market for an alternative to Writer that’s also Open Source, test drive these three word processors:
There’s much more to managing a project with git beyond just committing code and working with branches. GitHub-Driven Development is a process that will help you organize and manage the progression of a project on GitHub, although much of this could be applied to other systems, such as GitLab, as well. This concept isn’t only for developers; it can be used for project managers or anyone involved in the development of a project-it could even be applied to non-code projects.
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