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 […]

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 […]

Want to build your own AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client or plugin? You now have the support of AOL to do so. That is, unless you’re planning on using it inside of a multi-instant messaging protocol client, in which case AOL does not approve. AOL today is launching its Open AIM initiative, which includes SDKs […]

The new DHCP client is being proposed by kernel developer Stefan Rompf and will (when completed) automatically recognize when a Linux user has disconnected from a particular DHCP server and look for a new connection. But the effort is not without its detractors who feel that a new DHCP client is not necessary for Linux. […]

At the heart of every enterprise’s connection to the Internet is a router. It’s one of the most fundamental components of networking technologies, and the market is still growing, at least in terms of unit shipments. According to Infonetics Research, the global enterprise market shipped 14 percent more routers in 2005 than 2004. Despite that […]

The future of the Palm OS is Linux. That statement shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as PalmSource has been talking about Linux for more than a year. This week, however, the company has made good on its intention to move to Linux, with the announcement of a new Linux platform destined to become […]

As Linux matures as a viable operating system for mobile devices so, too, does the surrounding ecosystem of development tools. Trolltech is doing its part to boost mobile Linux adoption with the release today of Qtopia 4, which is based on its Qt (pronounced cute) 4 development platform. Qt is a C++ application development framework […]

The highest bandwidth commercially available via Ethernet is 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE), but a grassroots effort led by Force10 Networks is now hoping to improve that speed all the way up to 100 Gigabit or more. 100 GbE is seen by Force10 as something that will help meet the future bandwidth needs of enterprises […]

The enterprise collaboration market got a bit more competitive today with the release of the open source Zimbra collaboration and messaging server. Zimbra, which has been in beta use for over a year has now officially released its’ flagship product Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0 (ZCS) and made it generally available. Though Zimbra will work from […]

For hundreds of millions of users worldwide, Microsoft’s little blue “e” is the Web. After years of discussion and development, and in the face of its most notable challenge since its inception, a publicly available preview of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP is now available. IE 7 Beta 2 Preview includes a long list […]