Sean Michael Kerner

As the Linux kernel is becoming increasingly larger and more complex, Linux founder Linus Torvalds says his job is getting easier. Speaking on a panel at the LinuxCon conference, Torvalds told the audience that kernel development model is working better now than ever. But Torvalds added that there are still areas for improvement and provided […]

IBM’s Bob Sutor speaks at LinuxCon What is the future of the Linux desktop? According to Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux at IBM (NYSE: IBM), it’s not about dominating the desktop landscape or being a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Windows. In fact, during his keynote at the LinuxCon conference today, Sutor […]

From the ‘Tribbles are a form of malware‘ files: PC security vendor Sophos is ending its glorious experiment into Klingon PC anti-virus defense. No this is not an early April Fool’s Day joke, Sophos states that they’ve had over 100,000 downloads of its Star Trek bad/good guy inspired anti-virus software, which scanned for the usual […]

From the ‘Wacky Software Names‘ files: Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name of 2010’s first Ubuntu release. Ubuntu 10.04 will be named the Lucid Lynx. No, I’ve never seen a drunk Lynx before myself, but then again it’s not like I see Lynx’s on a regular basis either. Shuttleworth made the announcement […]

While the Internet may know no borders, the U.S Government does. At it happens, numerous export controls from the Commerce and Treasury departments cast a long shadow over the software industry, but Mozilla has secured a critical exemption that could have a broad impact on the open source movement. “We really couldn’t accept the notion […]

From the ‘Why Is Java So Hard?‘ files Developers get ready for yet another open source language to help make it easier to run code on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This time the code is from Google (hosted on Google code), it’s called Noop and is licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. […]

From the “Long-Lived Forks‘ files: DragonFly BSD 2.4 is now out,including a new 64-bit ISO image, kernel and feature updates. According to the release notes, the single most invasive change is the introduction of DEVFS. “The /dev filesystem is now mounted by the kernel after it mounts the root filesystem,” the release notes state. DragonFly […]

Nortel’s $900 million deal to sell off its Enterprise business assets to Avaya is moving forward. Late Wednesday, U.S Bankruptcy Court judge Kevin Gross issued an order authorizing and approving the sale. Avaya was named the winner of the Nortel Enterprise auction earlier this week. The Nortel division has been up for sale since July […]

Few doubt that the smart grid — the plan to upgrade the nation’s electrical networks, backed by supporters including politicians, environmental groups and tech industry leaders — is anything less than an ambitious undertaking. But it’s also an opportunity to improve the nation’s IPv6 adoption, according to Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). That’s because the networking giant […]

From the ‘Sad But True‘ files: Last week Mozilla rolled out Firefox 3.5.3, which checks the user’s version of Adobe Flash. As it turns out, in one week alone, 10 million people clicked on the Adobe update, according to Mozilla. That’s a staggering number. That potentially means that 10 million people were running older out-of-date […]