Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat is bolstering its product lineup with a pair of new initiatives that will expand the Linux vendor’s desktop efforts and add a new virtual appliance to the product mix. The new client-facing efforts come as Red Hat contends with pressures from Dell pre-loading Ubuntu Linux and Novell and Microsoft continuing to make hay […]

Linux continues to make inroads into China according to the latest market research. A new report from Beijing-based CCID Consulting pegs Linux operating sales revenues up by nearly 31 percent in the first quarter of 2007 to 31 million Yuan (just over US$4 million), as compared to the same period a year prior. CCID’s numbers […]

In typical enterprise WiFi  deployments, there are access points that provide access and controllers that control access and management. One startup is trying to get rid of the controller to save customers some important dollars. Aerohive is hawking a new approach where policy and management control is distributed in a cooperative way across access points […]

The first Gentoo Linux release of the year is now available, featuring an improved installer and updated packages. The release, which Gentoo developers have code-named Secret Sauce comes after several delays and revisions by developers to iron out security flaws. “This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities […]

Red Hat Exchange (RHX) was a part of the hoopla surrounding Red Hat’s release of its next-generation Linux platform. The Exchange, which is expected to formally be launched on May 10 at the Red Hat Summit, is an effort to make it easier for end users to get a myriad of third-party vendors’ applications directly […]

The Microsoft-Novell interoperability deal continues to win converts, the latest of which is none other than hardware giant Dell. Dell will now be purchasing Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and will also work on a migration effort for non-Dell Linux customers. That deal does not mean that Dell will be soliciting its […]

Open source messaging is about to take a huge step forward with the integration of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite into a national offering from Comcast. Comcast will leverage the Zimbra platform to offer its customers e-mail, instant messaging and voicemail within one online dashboard. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. HP is involved […]

Weathering a year-and-a-delay and legal entanglement with AOL, the leading open source instant messaging client has completed its makeover. Pidgin 2.0 is now officially available, taking over where its predecessor GAIM left off, with an overhauled user interface and status system, as well as numerous bug and feature improvements. Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging […]

Managing tens of thousands of servers is no trivial task and it’s not something you want to leave to just any software vendor. Traditionally big enterprise deployments have gone with big enterprise vendors, but one open source vendor is hoping to take a piece of the pie. Since 2001, Qlusters has been trying to help […]

Hallelujah! Linux on the desktop has finally arrived! Or has it been here all along? This week’s mammothly hyped news that Dell would be shipping PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-loaded has been hailed by some as a momentous occasion for the Linux desktop. One might be tempted to think that no hardware vendor has ever […]

TORONTO — A voice PBX system is typically thought of as being all work and no play. How much fun can you have with a system that is designed to provide voicemail and call extensions, right? Turns out that when you open up the code and let developers run wild, strange things can happen. Such […]

There has always been at least one universal standard that all search engines, be it Yahoo, AltaVista, Google or otherwise, have respected. That is the Robots exclusion (robots.txt) file. With robots.txt, site owners can only specify whole pages or directories to exclude. Yahoo has added a new twist, enabling site owners to specify which sections […]