Miscellaneous Tech News

Dashrender

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Lol like Germany did, then failed back.

StuartJordan

@dashrender That is very true, I believe Germany went back due to Microsoft offering them lower licence costs, probably will see other countries try this..

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Lol like Germany did, then failed back.

After like a decade and stated a LOT of success. It was very fishy and almost certainly political that they went back. Funny, no one has talked about the switch back being successful at all.

DustinB3403

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Lol like Germany did, then failed back.

The article even states that Microsoft gave the German government deep discounts.

dbeato

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Here I thought that OpenXchange had stopped development since Zentyal removed it from their release.

DustinB3403

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Here I thought that OpenXchange had stopped development since Zentyal removed it from their release.

It might just be the offering for the community edition, service patch support etc.

Still looks to be a viable system.

dbeato

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Barcelona to ditch Microsoft in favour of open source software:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024394/barcelona-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-open-source-software

Here I thought that OpenXchange had stopped development since Zentyal removed it from their release.

It might just be the offering for the community edition, service patch support etc.

Still looks to be a viable system.

That's nice.

mlnews

Samba 4.8 RC is out and 4.9 has started development.

Biggest new features...

KDC GPO Support (Samba itself can be managed via GPO)
Time Machine Support with vfs_fruit
Support for lower casing the MDNS Name
Encrypted Secrets

mlnews

First bits of the Siemens Jailhouse Hypervisor getting added to Linux 4.16.

DustinB3403

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

First bits of the Siemens Jailhouse Hypervisor getting added to Linux 4.16.

This bit here "So you boot Linux first, then you enable Jailhouse and finally you split off parts of the system's resources and assign them to additional cells." from github makes it sound like Jailhouse is a type 2 hypervisor.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

First bits of the Siemens Jailhouse Hypervisor getting added to Linux 4.16.

This bit here "So you boot Linux first, then you enable Jailhouse and finally you split off parts of the system's resources and assign them to additional cells." from github makes it sound like Jailhouse is a type 2 hypervisor.

No, it's a Type C, hence the name Jailhouse being named after Jails, the original Type-C.