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 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.
Open Source tools provide significant flexibility and cost savings to companies and users, since they can be easiliy customized according to each project and cut the costs of privative software’s licenses.
Mainly for these reasons, experts recommed using this type of software, moreover when the main goal is to evaluate a technology.
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of Eclipse Che, a new integrated development environment (IDE) platform.
This ecosystem supported by Codenvy, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAP is Open Source based improves agile development by integrating a cloud IDE, workspace server, and plug-ins into a universal developer workspace.
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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