Training given by engineer Nelio Véliz Pedraza, head of migration to Nova 5.0 in the university. Photo: Alberto Medina Cruz
New challenges for the team that will take the migration to Nova 5.0
Training given by engineer Nelio Véliz Pedraza, head of migration to Nova 5.0 in the university. Photo: Alberto Medina Cruz
Among the numerous tasks to achieve the computerization of Cuban society is the migration to free platforms due to the advantages they provide on proprietary software.
Nova, Cuban distribution of GNU / Linux, already in its version 5.0, is an operating system developed in the University of the Informatics Sciences (known as UCI) with new tools and solutions that will facilitate the migration of the organs and Organisms of the Central State of the CubanAdministration .
Since the end of the academic year 2015-2016, specifically Faculty 1 completed the migration of its workstations to this new version of the Nova operating system, which continues in the rest of the areas during the final months of the year.
To efficiently complete the task, this September 12th , in Lab 102 of Teaching building 3, began the training course to training staff, made up of technicians and specialists from the Computerization Department and the Center for Free Solutions (Cesol), which have the mission to carry out the migration in the other areas of the University, according to the stages planned.
This training, given by the engineer Nelio Véliz Pedraza, head of the migration in the UCI, has the objective of preparing the personnel who, using the Nova 5.0 Migrant Handbook, will take on such important work.
According to Véliz Pedraza, it is very important to carry out this migration in the new version due to security and updating issues, especially since version 4.0 will be obsolete in a short time.
He also stressed that in the current migration will be in most cases from Nova 4.0 to Nova 5.0, however, indicated that scenarios can be detected where it is necessary to migrate completely from Windows to Linux.
By putting into practice, in the workstations, the orientations received from the explanations of this specialist of Cesol, prepares the team work composed of about 30 young people who will have the challenge of assuming from September 19th the new migration in the university.
