Sean Michael Kerner

Gentoo Linux released its latest distribution snapshot version 2005.1, which updates the installation media, driver support and wireless networking support. Unlike releases from commercial Linux distributions, such as Red Hat or Novell, Gentoo considers itself a “meta distribution.” This means users can customize their distributions with the Gentoo Portage system from a collection of more than 6,000 continuous update […]

IBM has announced support for the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Geronimo project to help users navigate the J2EE server. In addition to this open source assist, announced today at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, IBM said it contributed some of its Gluecode software to the Geronimo project. The support services offered by IBM are intended to help […]

Beijing, China-based Sun Wah Linux officially announced its enterprise Debian Linux offering today at LinuxWorld San Francisco. The launch of Sun Wah’s enterprise Debian offering comes as the Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA) officially launches at LinuxWorld and vendors, including Novell, Red Hat, Turbolinux and Red Flag Linux, all vie for the lucrative top spot in the world’s fastest-growing […]

IBM hopes its new grid offering will be an easy entry point for firms still unsure about adopting the technology. The company’s Grid and Grow is a packaged set of hardware, software and services that includes IBM’s BladeCenter Grid Hardware and a choice of grid scheduler, operating system (Linux, AIX or Windows) and services to […]

HP announced a slew of Linux initiatives today, including its Virus Throttle security technology and the availability of more than 200 open source packages that can run on its open source server. The announcements come as LinuxWorld San Francisco kicks off and vendors of all stripes peddle their Linux wares to throngs of open source […]

According to Gartner, in the second quarter of 2005, worldwide PDA shipments increased by 32 percent. According to IDC, shipments decreased by almost 21 percent in the second quarter, marking the sixth quarter in a row of decline for the sector. The divergent stats on what apparently is the same sector is nothing new and […]

In 1999, Eric S. Raymond published The Cathedral & the Bazaar, a seminal tome on the open source movement in which he writes: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.” Beloved old technologies don’t die. They go open source. For some reason the open source model has enabled dead and […]

Who’s the Linux leader in China? That depends on who you ask and when. Novell claims it’s the leader today, and four months ago Turbolinux claimed it was the leader. And you can’t discount Red Flag Linux, either. Basing its claim on data from IDC’s China Linux Market Analysis, 1H2005, Novell leads the Chinese Linux […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) is buying $8 million worth of Red Hat’s Linux software and services. The deal was awarded through Red Hat reseller DLT Solutions, which has been a Red Hat partner since 2000. The DoC signed a “Blanket Purchase Agreement” (BPA) with Herndon, Va.-based DLT Solutions for Red Hat software and […]

Almost a year after IBM donated its Java-based database server to the Apache Software Foundation, the project has now come out of the incubator, become a full project and released a new version. The open source project also has the support of Sun Microsystems as well. Apache Derby is a standards-based pure Java relational database […]

The Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA), a group that brings together nine different Linux distributions under a common banner, is set to be announced at a press conference at LinuxWorld San Francisco next Tuesday, internetnews.com has learned. The DCCA is expected to help drive Debian into the enterprise and bring it into direct competition with […]

Between December 2004 and July 2005, the “defect density” in the Linux kernel has fallen from 0.17 to 0.16 and all serious defects have been corrected, a new report out from code analysis firm Coverity asserts. Defect density declined by 2.2 percent as the total lines of code in the Linux kernel continues to grow […]