Sean Michael Kerner

“We used to have nothing but reverse engineered drivers where it was a miracle that they worked at all.” Linux Wireless maintainer John Linville commenting on the state of Linux wireless drivers (InternetNews)   “IPv6 is out there, it’s still a small percentage of overall traffic, but it’s out there.” Steve House, senior director of […]

From the ‘When Humans Dream of Electric Sheep’ files: Thanks to Google Android, more people then ever use Linux today. If and when Google’s Project Glass becomes a mass market reality, humanity itself could end up becoming a Linux end-point. Google Glass is Google’s effort at wearable technology, a display that projects contextual information and […]

From the ‘Wireless Linux’ files. For a number of years, many Linux users (myself included) struggled with Wireless on Linux. Simply put, Linux distros didn’t always correctly recognize or work with the Wireless hardware on the user’s laptop. That has changed in recent years. Speaking on a panel at the Linux Collaboration Summit this week, […]

To help solve the problem of IPv6 visibility, networking equipment vendor Blue Coat this week announced an updated version of their PacketShaper network visibility system software technology. “PacketShaper can now classify and control specific applications running over IPv6,” Steve House, senior director of Product Marketing and Management, told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. “PacketShaper has been a great platform […]

In a panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration summit this week, top Linux kernel developers detailed their common pet peeves about the Linux development model. It’s a model that is not for the feint of heart. Linux founder Linus Torvalds this week wrote in posting that, “publicly making fun of people is half the fun […]

The open source ownCloud file sync and sharing project is moving into the commercial space with the release of new Business and Enterprise editions this week. The Business and Enterprise Editions build on the ownCloud 3.0 release that debuted in February. The new editions provide additional management capabilities and commercial support. What ownCloud is essentially […]

From the ‘Open Source Cousins‘ files: Android is now back in the Linux kernel as of the recent 3.3 release. That doesn’t mean that Android however is a first class Linux citizen, according to developers speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit this week. While Android can boot with a Linux 3.3 kernel, it’s not power […]

There are a lot of different people that contribute code to the Linux kernel. In fact, according to the 2012 Linux Kernel Development report from the Linux Foundation, more than 7,800 developers from nearly 800 different companies have participated in Linux kernel development. Not all of those companies and developers participate in every kernel release. […]

In May 2011, Citrix announced an effort called Project Olympus to provide a commercial implementation of the open source OpenStack cloud platform. Less than a year later, Citrix is killing Project Olympus in favor of its own open source effort called CloudStack. Sameer Dholakia, group VP and GM of Cloud Platforms at Citrix, explained during […]

Late Friday, credit card processing vendor Global Payments admitted they had been the victim of a data breach. Monday morning the company’s CEO got on the phone with press and analysts to explain what happened and to debunk rumors. “There is a lot of rumor and innuendo out there and most of it is incredibly […]

Dell is making its second acquisition of 2012 today, with a deal to acquire thin computing vendor Wyse Technologies. Dell announced its intention to acquire network security vendor SonicWALL in March. Financial details of the Wyse deal were not disclosed. With Wyse, Dell will be bringing thin client computing technology in-house as part of larger […]

Google is now taking Canvas2D a step further by enabling the new Chrome 18 web browser to leverage hardware-based GPU acceleration. “We’ve enabled GPU-accelerated Canvas2D on capable Windows and Mac computers, which should make web applications like games perform even better than a pure software implementation,” Google explained on the Chromium blog. Hardware acceleration for […]