Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO — At the heart of many open source debates is the issue of licensing. Is one license better than the other? Is a particular open license actually open source? In the final analysis, according to a panel at LinuxWorld, it may not matter at all. The real debate may well be around who […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Linux is a key part of the success mix for virtualization. That was the message of Mendel Rosenblum, chief scientist and cofounder of VMware. Rosenblum’s penguin love is not a new thing, either. He recounted for the LinuxWorld audience here that the very first version of VMware was launched on Linux in […]

SAN FRANCISCO — According to Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian, there needs to be more application availability on Linux in order to accelerate Linux adoption. Ron Hovsepian Source: Novell Speaking in a keynote session here at LinuxWorld, Hovsepian announced a series of initiatives and gave his ideas on what it will take to help […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Sometimes, the promises that vendors make on a show stage turn out to be empty. That’s not the case with Dell. In a Tuesday afternoon keynote session at LinuxWorld, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler demonstrated the virtualization that he touted 18 months ago at LinuxWorld Boston. During his presentation Kettler showed a slide […]

SAN FRANCISCO — It may be thankless, boring work, but you have to get more involved in building the Linux Kernel. That was the underlying message to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft by Linux Kernel co-maintainer Andrew Morton during a keynote address at the Linuxworld conference here. His principal theme, however, was one of participation in […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The first rule of Fight Club is to not speak about Fight Club. That is unless of course you’re an open source vendor that, by definition, aims to make everything open and available. Open source networking vendor Untangle wants to talk about its Fight Club, an event, scheduled for LinuxWorld here this […]

>”Interoperability” is a key buzzword that means a lot of different things. Sometime it refers to interoperability in heterogeneous operating system Environments. In the case of the Open Solutions Alliance, it refers to interoperability across different open source applications. The OSA officially got started in February at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit as a consortium […]

LinuxWorld San Francisco is the annual love fest for Linux aficionados. This year’s iteration will attempt to share the love with virtualization and energy usage, as the show is being co-located with the Next-Generation Data Center (NGDC) conference. Instead of having nothing but Linux, the keynote lineup will also have a few speakers who are […]

LAS VEGAS — When it comes to security, a lot of what matters might not be based on technology but rather what happens in people’s heads. In a keynote presentation here at Black Hat, noted Security pundit Bruce Schneier exposed the reality that clouds most security-related judgments and actions. In Schneier’s opinion, security is very […]

LAS VEGAS — The big iPhone hack has now been publicly presented. Too bad for the bad guys that Apple already patched by the bug, or have they? Charlie Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, took the stage at Black Hat Thursday and explained explained in line-by-line detail how he exploited the iPhone and […]