Sean Michael Kerner

Though Red Hat is poised to roll out its much-anticipated Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 release shortly, work still continues on previous versions of RHEL. This week Red Hat rolled out a beta release of its fifth update to RHEL 4 officially tagged Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, providing users with a small taste […]

Make no mistake about it, the world is moving to Ethernet. According to a new report from Infonetics Research, the global market revenues for service provider routers and switches was $9.6 billion in 2006, a 33 percent increase over the $7.2 billion recorded in 2005. Ethernet and IP are among the driving factors for the […]

You’ve got to hand it to SCO CEO Darl McBride, he sticks to his guns. On SCO’s Q1 2007 earning conference call late Thursday afternoon, McBride outlined his company’s performance and told listeners that he believes that SCO stock is undervalued. McBride also levied some fighting words against those that SCO is litigating against, saying […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Having Linux preloaded on PCs from major vendors is a dream many in the Linux community have had for a long time. Preloaded Linux from a major hardware vendor is a great idea, but despite the rumors and constant talk swirling about the issue, I don’t believe it will happen in the way […]

Open source e-mail vendor Open-Xchange is claiming that it has landed its largest customer win yet in the form of 1&1 Internet Inc., one of the largest Web hosting companies in the world with over 1 million e-mail accounts. The win is another proof point for vendors of open source e-mail and collaboration as they […]

There is a new Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) specification out, though it is little different from its predecessor, which has been available for nearly a year. The newly formed Linux Foundation today announced CGL version 4.0, which includes more refinement and compliance specs from the CGL 3.2 spec. Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) provides a set […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is getting into the healthcare business. In partnership with healthcare solutions provider McKesson, Red Hat announced today the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform. The new healthcare product is part of a renewed focus by Red Hat to provide vertical market solutions. The move comes at a key time as the Linux […]

Whatever happened to the Open Management Consortium (OMC)? Since last May when six open source management projects announced the formation of the OMC, the group has issued nary a peep of news. Is there an agenda? “It is active,” Ofer Shoshan, CEO of open source management vendor Qlusters and a founder of the OMC, told […]

Mozilla updated its flagship Firefox browser to version 2.0.0.2 and the legacy version to release 1.5.10. The updated browser fixes at least seven flaws, including a password vulnerability bug rated critical last November. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-02, broadly titled “Improvements to help protect against Cross-Site Scripting attacks,” provides a fix for the password […]

Although the GPL is considered the most widely used license in open source projects today, plenty of commercial open source projects choose to use a Mozilla Public License (MPL) variant instead. Open source enterprise content management firm Alfresco used to be one such commercial vendor. But as of today, Alfresco is moving from an MPL […]

The 802.1x port-based security standard is often considered the best method of security for network access control (NAC) implementations. But that’s not to say that all 802.1x implementations are always secure and bug-free. Cisco this week reported that a pair of its 802.1x supplicants (an 802.1x component used in the client endpoints) had flaws that, […]

Who said you can’t make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions? HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat. HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for Debian, […]