Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO — The success of Linux over the past 15 years boils down to a few key factors, according to a panel of Linux luminaries. Larry Augustin, chairman of VA Software, Eric Raymond, founder of the Open Source Institute, Jon maddog Hall of Linux International, Chris DiBona of Google, and Dirk Hohndel of Intel […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Though Red Hat isn’t an exhibitor at this year’s LinuxWorld here, it is making its presence known. In a meeting at a hotel near the Moscone convention center, Brian Stevens, Red Hat’s vice president of Engineering and CTO, told internetnews.com that though his company isn’t exhibiting at the show, it still feels […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Red Hat  may be the world’s leading enterprise Linux distribution vendor, but the company is a no-show as an exhibitor at the LinuxWorld conference here. But Fedora, Red Hat’s community-based distribution, is front and center at the .org pavilion and enjoying the extra room in the spotlight among the open source attendees. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Are you in compliance with the open source licensed application you’re using? It’s a question that Google’s Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona understands well. In an energetic 90-minute session here at LinuxWorld, DiBona explained the principal differences between licenses and how to maintain compliance with them. He also explained how Google, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The fight for free culture will be more difficult than the fight for free software, said Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Creative Commons and Professor of Law at Stanford. Lessig took the podium at LinuxWorld here for the opening keynote with an impassioned plea to the audience about free culture and the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Wouldn’t mobile software development be a whole lot easier and more effective if you actually had the device in hand? Trolltech’s Qtopia Greenphone initiative, launched at a press event in San Francisco last night, is designed to make that possible. Greenphone includes both hardware and a software development kit that is intended […]

Practice may not necessarily make perfect, but when it comes to Linux it will make you money. A new study conducted by the Institute of Partner Education and Development (IPED) reveals that the channel can profit handsomely from selling Linux solutions. Among other high-level findings is that survey participants also noted they would be ramping […]

Not everyone has the skills necessary to build his own Linux distribution. Raleigh, North Carolina-based rPath is offering to help users build their own customized Linux distribution as an appliance. If you want to do it online for free, feel free. The company originally launched a free rPath Builder Online service earlier this year. Now, […]

No one vendor will rule the Linux virtualization roost. VMware, Xen, IBM and Red Hat are collaborating on a “para-virtualization” interface for the Linux kernel that would enable multiple hypervisors. Jack Lo, senior director of R&D at VMware, said the effort is about making an operating system more virtualization-aware. “People generally refer to that as […]

HP  today said it will support Debian GNU/Linux on its ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, adding to a short list of Linux distribution support that includes Novell SUSE and Red Hat. The last major Debian release, code-named Sarge, came out in June 2005 after much delay. The next release, code-named Etch, is on track for a […]

For years, pundits have proclaimed that the Linux Desktop is coming, and yet it was still lacking in some of the critical collaboration apps that enterprises rely on. Some have argued that without key collaboration applications that can interface with Microsoft’s Exchange, enterprises won’t adopt Linux. That’s going to change this year. Collaboration applications, old […]

It’s that time of year again when the Linux world converges on San Francisco to talk about all things Linux. And of course all the major players in the Linux world will be there; many have news, and others just have things they want to say about the news to come. A lot of this […]