What's new on OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0?

OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 was announced on 2022-06-23. Since then, new features and fixes have arrived thanks to our rolling release model, APT repository and packages.

Netbooting memtest: oge-memtest

Did you know that you can easily netboot your computers into memtest86+ for an easy and scalable way of testing your equipment's memory? Binaries and netbooting templates are shipped with the following package: oge-memtest

New installations of OpenGnsys Enterprise ship oge-memtest by default. If your OpenGnsys installation does not have this feature just install the package with the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install oge-memtest

Bash scripts merged into native ogClient code

ogClient is going through a series of patches in which external Bash scripts are being natively merged into Python code in order to improve bug tracing, bug fixing and future development of this component.

python-libfdisk

python-libfdisk brings libfdisk bindings into Python. Meaning that ogClient, (or any other Python program) can use this library natively. Current version of ogClient uses python-libfdisk to obtain disk and partition information. In the future, it will support modifying the partition table so no external script or subprocess call to fdisk or sfdisk are needed.

New OpenGnsys Enterprise documentation

We are pleased to announce a new section for OpenGnsys Enterprise documentation. In this section you will find the PDF and HTML version of the OpenGnsys Enterprise manual. You can read more about OpenGnsys Enterprise documentation here.

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OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 has been released

OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 has been released.

The OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 release is major milestone in the development process including new componentes such as OgCP, OgCLI and tiptorrent that have been developed and sponsored by Soleta Networks.

Soleta Networks offers the OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 edition which allows you to easily install and maintain your deployments up-to-date through APT repository for Ubuntu 18.04.

The OpenGnsys Enterprise 2.0 series includes many updates:

  • The new web administrative interface OgCP.

  • Enhancements for the OgCLI command line interface as an alternative to the administrative web interface.

  • Updates for OgClient to use the new python-libfdisk binding.

  • A new dataplane based on HTTP to distribute images efficiently over the network with tiptorrent and tiptorrent-client.

  • Virtualize your desktop with OpenGnsys VDI.

  • ... lots of fixes for better experience and stability.

If you are an OpenGnsys user, upgrading to this latest release is strongly recommended.

OpenGnsys 1.2.0 has been released

OpenGnsys 1.2.0 (codename "Gazpacho") has been released.

Soleta Networks is the top leading contributor to the OpenGnsys 1.2.0 release, in cooperation with several Spanish public University.

The OpenGnsys 1.2.0 release is major milestone in the development process including major enhancements such as the new OgServer, OgClient and OgCLI components that have been developed and sponsored by Soleta Networks.

Soleta Networks offers the OpenGnsys Enterprise edition which allows you to easily install and maintain your deployments up-to-date through packages for Ubuntu 18.04.

The OpenGnsys 1.2.0 series includes many updates:

  • New OgClient component which replaces OgAdmClient.

  • New OgCLI command line interface as an alternative to the administrative web interface.

  • New communication protocol from OgServer and OgClient.

  • Removal of ogAdmAgent, the task scheduler has been merged into OgServer.

  • Improvements in WakeOnLan support.

  • Integration with systemd.

  • New OgServer and OgClient configuration file in JSON format.

  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (OpenGnsys VDI) which allows you to virtualize your desktop environment.

  • ... among many others.

If you are a OpenGnsys user, upgrading to this latest relase is strongly recommended.

OpenGnsys 1.2.0 packages for Ubuntu

Soleta Networks announces general availability of the Ubuntu 18.04 packages for the upcoming OpenGnsys 1.2.0 release.

The upcoming OpenGnsys 1.2.0 release is major milestone in the development process including major enhancements such as OgClient that have been sponsored by Soleta Networks.

The 1.2.0 series includes many updates features:

  • New OgClient component which replaces OgAdmClient.

  • New communication protocol from OgServer and OgClient.

  • Removal of ogAdmAgent, the task scheduler has been merged into OgServer.

  • Improvements in WakeOnLan support.

  • Integration with systemd.

  • New OgServer configuration file in JSON format.

  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (OpenGnsys VDI) support which allows you to virtualize your desktop environment.

  • ... and bugfixes.

The upcoming release also supports for OpenGnsys VDI that allows you to virtualize your desktop computer.

Soleta Networks is the top leading contributor to the project OpenGnsys in this release series 1.2.0, in cooperation with several Spanish public University.

OpenGnsys 1.1.1c has been released

OpenGnsys 1.1.1c is a maintenance release of the 1.1.1 series that contains bugfixes. Please, consider upgrading your deployment to this latest stable release.

The 1.1.1 series includes 244 contributions by Soleta Networks aiming to improve stability of the core features:

This work is aiming to consolidate the core to add new features in the next 1.2 release series, including OpenGnsys VDI to virtualize your desktop.

Soleta Networks is the top leading contributor to the project OpenGnsys in this release series.

Announcing first OpenGnsys VDI release

OpenGnsys is an Open source software for centralized desktop Operating Systems (OS) deployment and management.

Soleta Networks, a company specialized in Linux-based open source networking software, is the top leading contributor since the OpenGnsys 1.1.1 release series.

Today, Soleta Networks announces another major achievement for the OpenGnsys project by releasing OpenGnsys VDI, a hypervisor OS to virtualize desktop environments.

OpenGnsys highly simplifies desktop OS management and deployment, however, system administrators still have to dedicate a significant amount of their time to tailor the OS image according to the computer desktop hardware inventory.

OpenGnsys VDI is a hypervisor OS commoditizer that allows system administrators to build one single OS image to run it everywhere.

OpenGnsys VDI features:

  • Reduce OS image tailoring burden by commodizing your desktop environment

  • Remote access to desktops through VNC.

  • Native integration with the OpenGnsys.