Sean Michael Kerner

The founder of Mandrake Linux has been let go from the company he helped to create. Since 2005, Mandrake, has been known as Mandriva following its $2.3 million dollar purchase of Conectiva. Gael Duval has confirmed rumors first posted on a Mandriva forum posting that he is no longer with Mandriva. “Since the information has […]

It happens almost every day, third parties perform credit checks on unsuspecting individuals without their knowledge. Sometimes those checks are for legitimate purposes such as new credit card applications, but other times they’re performed by criminals seeking to steal identities. Redwood City, Calif.-based startup TrustedID thinks that it has the simple answer to stopping identity […]

Apple QuickTime and iTunes users may yet again be at risk from a currently unpatched exploit. According to security firm, eEye, there is a pair of overflow conditions — one an integer overflow and the other heap-based — that could enable a malicious user to execute arbitrary code. There is currently no patch available from […]

A new partnership between Zimbra and Asterisk is helping to bridge the gap between text- and voice-based collaboration. Zimbra is an open source suite that blends AJAX and Web Services together for calendar, contact and e-mail collaboration. Asterisk is an open source IP-PBX originally begun by open source wunderkind Mark Spencer. Thanks to a new […]

Sun Microsystems  is now sitting at the very heart of the Internet’s dot-com infrastructure, thanks to a recent upgrade by domain registrar VeriSign . Is it time to call Sun the dot in dot-com again (as its ads suggested)? Or is the dot-com related hosting business still mostly the domain for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows? […]

Few security measures are as ubiquitous as the network firewall. Marcus Ranum, the creator of the proxy firewall, doesn’t think that an invention of the same stature will emerge in the foreseeable future, though there is still plenty of room for IT security improvement. Among Ranum’s numerous security products and initiatives over the last two […]

Mozilla’s Web browser applications have been downloaded over a hundred million times for free. But that doesn’t mean the spawn of AOL isn’t turning a profit. Thanks to Google, Mozilla is raking in millions of dollars of revenue, which is used to pay the employees of the recently formed Mozilla Corporation and fund project and […]

Novell has replaced its lead Linux executive for the third time in less than two years. Former Lucent Technologies executive, Roger Levy, is the new general manager of the unit and will report to Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe. He replaces David Patrick, who had been the vice president and general manager of the Novell’s Linux, […]

Novell is dropping its own name from its newest desktop software and rebranding it as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The new software will sport a number of enhancements geared to bring the Linux desktop to the level of the average worker. “We’re making the decision to consolidate our Linux technology brands around the SUSE Linux […]

Linux is apparently hurting the bottom line for unix software maker SCO Group, in more ways than one. Salavation, however, may well just be sitting at the “Edge” for SCO. The SCO Group’s earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 2006 reveals that its legal costs and costs associated with its SCOsource licensing initiatives grew […]

The GPL open source license does not increase legal risk to companies that are governed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), according to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). In fact, the GPL may well be on track to actually improving its applicability for usage concerning SOX compliance, thanks to proposed new additions in […]

If you’re a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 user, update your installations now. Doing so will get you a slew of security, feature and driver updates, as well as a few technology previews of what’s coming next. Linux leader Red Hat has issued the third update to its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL) […]