Sean Michael Kerner

Speaking at the LinuxCon conference this week, Google engineer Thomas Bushnell detailed his company’s use of Linux for desktop users. Bushnell’s team is responsible for providing a Linux engineering platform for Google’s internal employees, including graphics designer, managers as well as software and system engineers. The system that Bushnell deploys is known to Googlers as […]

What’s the difference between a community Linux distribution and an enterprise Linux distribution? That’s the question that Tim Burke, vice-president of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, answered during a keynote address at the LinuxCon conference. Burke began by telling the audience that he originally came to Red Hat from the Unix world. Unix to Linux […]

As was the case in the beginning, Torvalds remains the leader of Linux and is responsible for maintaining the mainline kernel and pushing out its new leading-edge releases. One of the questions that has long been asked, and was asked again at the LinuxCon conference on Wednesday night, is the question of succession known as, […]

SAN DIEGO. What is open source? It’s not as easy a question as you might think. For me, I used to (perhaps naively) believe that any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is open source. Those licenses are all supposed to conform to the Open Source Definition. Speaking at the LinuxCon conference, Red […]

SAN DIEGO. It’s no secret that Google’s Android mobile operating system has had its share of security flaws. But what is less well-known is that the U.S. government’s National Security Agency (NSA) is among the teams working to improve Android security. Speaking at the LinuxCon North America 2012 conference, NSA developer Stephen Smalley detailed how […]

SUSE is officially making its OpenStack-based Open cloud offering widely available. The Linux vendor has been working on its OpenStack distribution for much of the year, with the first public beta debuting back in June. The new SUSE Cloud can be used for both public and private cloud deployments and adds yet another option for […]

Linux use on server technologies continues to rise, chipping away at both Windows and Unix shares. Though in Zemlin’s view, Linux today is about much more than just the server. “Open source and Linux have become fundamental to the way people create new technology,” Zemlin said. The two major shifts in computing today, mobility and […]

From the ‘I asked, Linus answered’ files: SAN DIEGO. Linus Torvalds took stage tonight at the LinuxCon conference in a panel discussion about the state of Linux. Lucky for me they took questions from the audience via Twitter – though apparently i was the only one that asked questions over Twitter… I asked about the […]

From the ‘What Can’t Arduino Do?’ files:SAN DIEGO. Sleep apnea is a serious condition. So what’s a hacker with sleep apnea going to do?That was the topic of one of more eccentric session at the LinuxCon conference today.  Google developer Marc Merlin suffers from Sleep Apnea and wasn’t satisfied with some of the commercial solutions […]

From the ‘There is GPL code for that app’ files: SAN DIEGO. Apple is one of the most closed companies on Earth. Yet according to Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Apple embraces open source too. Speaking in the keynote address at the LinuxCon CloudOpen event, Zemline said that the days of […]

This week, Juniper is updating vGW to version 5.5, providing new features to meet the growing challenges of securing virtual infrastructure at scale. “vGW is a software solution for securing virtual environments doing the same sort of things that physical devices do,” Johnnie Constansis, product marketing manager at Juniper told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. “Firewall, IPS, malware detection, […]

Aside from changing the vSphere pricing model, the new vSphere 5.1 update forms the basis of VMware’s overall vCloud Suite. As part of that update, VMware CTO Steve Herrod noted that vMotion, which is the ability to move virtual machines across servers and even data centers, has been enhanced. In the past, vMotion required shared […]