Sean Michael Kerner

From the “we know what’s best for you” files: Firefox 3 has been out since June 17th, but to date existing Firefox 2 users have not received an upgrade notice for the new version. Instead users have had to go out and download Firefox 3 on their own (which over 30 million people have already […]

It looks like the trio of MIT researchers that had been barred from talking about flaws in the Boston subway/ Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system fare system can now talk. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which had been vocal on behalf of the three students reported that: The Court found that the MBTA was […]

What does the future hold for Linux development at Red Hat? A look at some of the new features coming in the Fedora 10 Linux distribution release might yield some clues. Currently in early development with a feature freeze scheduled for the end of August, Fedora 10 includes a host of improvements that aim to […]

From the “Shuttleworth does more than just Ubuntu” files: The Mozilla Foundation has named Mark Surman as its new Executive Director effective September 22.  Surman is currently serving as an Open Philanthropy Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. Yup that’s the same Shuttleworth that runs Canonical/Ubuntu and the same dude that paid $20 million to hitch […]

The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish. In a year-long study of 2,393 peering and backbone routers conducted by Arbor Networks, the majority of respondents (customer and peering interfaces) said IPv6 traffic […]

From the “it’s about releases isn’t it?” files: Debian GNU/Linux is now 15 years old — which isn’t too shabby for an operating system. Yet though Debian is still alive and kicking, I’m not so sure it holds the market position that it should at this point in its maturity. Sure there are many Linux […]

From the “what?!” files: Big news friends, Canonical (the lead commercial backer of Ubuntu Linux) has formally joined the Linux Foundation. Shocking isn’t it? Shocking in that Ubuntu is one of the most hyped (if not THE most) of all Linux distributions and Canonical was NOT previously a member of the Linux Foundation. Certainly you […]

Disabling an enemy’s ability to communicate is one of the most basic – and ancient – tactics of warfare. In the case of the current Russian incursion in to Georgia that also means the Internet. There is no clear indication at this point who is directly to blame for the DDoS attacks against Georgia but […]

They still can’t talk about it. First the court ordered three M.I.T students not to present their findings on how to hack the Boston subway/ Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system fare system. So no presentation happened at Defcon on it as a result. Instead the full presentation ended up being posted publicly on the […]

From the “who needs a pre-load when you’re embedded” files: Dude – if you’re getting a Dell then you’re getting Linux. No you don’t have to order one of those fancy Ubuntu pre-load deals. This is an embedded Linux that will be available on a whole bunch of new Dell Latitude laptops in a feature […]

Ed Boyajian, EnterpriseDB’s president and CEO Source: EnterpriseDB Open source is about a lot more than just Linux, though open source software vendors can learn a lot from the success of Linux. That’s where open source database vendor EnterpriseDB is headed with its new CEO Ed Boyajian, who was recruited out of Linux leader Red […]

From the “it ain’t real till someone checks” files: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has validated the open source Artistic license in a key ruling handed down yesterday. DLA Piper attorney Mark Radcliffe called the case, “…the first real test of the remedies for breach of open source licenses in […]