The Goya Theatre in Madrid will host next Tuesday 16th the first edition of the Enterprise Open Source Conference, which is, according to the organization, “the first Open Source Conference 100% focused on the business world that takes place in Spain”.
Through lectures, workshops, round tables, case studies and demonstrations, thw public will understand why Open Source technologies are gaining ground over proprietary technologies in the enterprises and how they have the IT world abuzz.
The wide variety of options is one of the features that differentiates Linux from other operating systems. It is the case of desktops, since users can choose between a multitude of alternatives, such as Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, GNOME…
One of them is KDE, which is marked for being a powerful, flexible, and even funny option. Linux and Open Source expert David Both helps us to explore this desktop environment, listing 9 reasons to use KDE:
UDS Enterprise is going to take part in the OpenExpo Day 2015 next June 16th. This conference, which will be held at the Galileo Theatre in Madrid, will bring together the Free Software Spanish community to talk about new trends and to present interesting Open Source tools to improve business’ productivity.
Our VDI connection broker for Windows and Linux UDS Enterprise will be one of those tools. The CEO of VirtualCable, Félix Casado, will participate in a panel discussion on cloud solutions to discuss, among other things, about the different Open Source based cloud orchestrators and desktop virtualization.
Debian 8.1 is available for download. The developers have been working for 2 years to release this new version of the Open Source operating system.
This new edition, which is called Jessie arrives with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in Jessie.
LXD, the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical, beats KVM in density and speed. The company published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than KVM.
The target platform for this analysis was an Intel server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The testing involved launching as many guest instances as possible with competing hypervisor technologies, LXD and KVM.
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