Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Former Red Hat Employees Gone Mad’ files:Alan Cox is a name that is well known in Linux circles. The former Red Hat kernel dev has always been influential and in recent years he has made his work home (until yesterday) at Intel.In what is the most scathing description I have ever seen of […]

From the ‘fork that time hasn’t forgotten’ files: In the world of Continuous Integration (CI) servers, more often than not I only hear one name and it’s not Hudson. The name I usually hear is Jenkins, the fork of the formerly Oracle project, now Eclipse project called Hudson. While they hype cycles that I follow […]

From the ‘Mozilla Bashing’ Files: This week, the big news is that there are now a pair of Firefox OS developer phones. In my opinion, Mozilla would do well just to simply support the same basic specs as the OpenHandsetAlliance/Android at the firmware level. That’s the basic approach that I think Ubuntu is taking now […]

Intel reported its fiscal 2012 revenues last week. For the year, Intel’s revenue was reported at $53.3 billion with Net Income of $11.0 billion. The lion’s share of Intel 2012 revenue came from its PC Client Group, with $34.3 billion, a 3 percent year-over-year decline. In contrast, the Data Center Group grew by 6 percent, […]

In 2013, HP TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is upping the ante with $560,000 in cash awards up for grabs. That’s a significant increase over the $105,000 that Pwn2own 2012 offered. As opposed to the 2012 event, this year Pwn2own is not taking a points-based approach to determine the winner. Instead, this year the first […]

From the ‘Friday Updates’ files: Mozilla updated Firefox with a 18.0.1 release late Friday fixing at least seven bugs. Firefox 18.0 was released at the beginning of January, but apparently it missed a few items that have surfaced in recent weeks. Four bugs are related to problems with HTTP Proxy Transactions. These include bugs 828202, […]

“The Fedora Project is incredibly delighted to announce the release of Fedora 18 (“Spherical Cow”). Heck, we’d even say that getting this release to you has been a mooving experience.” Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Linux Project leader announcing the final release of Fedora 18 (fedora) “We have weaponized exploits for *all* categories and we registered for […]

Open 3.0 was originally codenamed “Roadrunner” and is a new server motherboard approach that conforms to standards being developed by the Open Compute Project. Suresh Gopalakrishnan explained during a keynote session at the Open Compute Summit this week that Open 3.0 is a single modular platform that can be tuned for multiple-use cases, whether its […]

Since the very beginning of the computer era, CPUs have been tied to specific slots. But that could soon become a relic of a monolithic server architecture legacy. Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware design, announced today the new Common Slot specification at the Open Compute Summit. “We’re establishing for the first time a common […]

Symantec released its Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013 survey this week which reveals that cloud penetration is now at all time high. According to the study, 94 percent of all enterprises are now discussing cloud services, up from 75 percent in the 2012 survey. Cloud-based storage services – including Amazon S3 and Dropbox […]

Software Defined Networking (SDN), ironically, is a concept that has yet to have a truly well defined definition. That’s a situation that Juniper Networks is aiming to solve today with the official introduction of the company’s full strategy and vision for what SDN really should enable. To date, Muglia noted that the way networking software […]

After over a month of delays, Fedora 18 became generally available this week. The Fedora 18 Linux release is the first for the Red Hat community effort since the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release in May 2012. Perhaps the biggest change in the Fedora Linux 18 release, also known as the Spherical Cow, is an […]