Sean Michael Kerner

Novell Thursday updated OpenSUSE to version 10.3, adding the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer. Perhaps just as importantly, it’s now also faster to get to all the latest and greatest, with what Novell claims is the shortest boot time yet for its community Linux distribution. The openSUSE 10.3 release includes […]

Among the issues that Linux users, hardware and peripheral vendors may run into when trying to get into Linux is the issue of driver availability. Enter the Linux Driver Project. Led by Novell staffer Greg Kroah-Hartman, the group is aiming to get drivers and Linux users aligned. “This driver program is central to the continued […]

Embattled Unix vendor The SCO Group remained listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange as of Friday. For how much longer that will be the case, however, is unclear. After Friday’s markets close, SCO said it had received a hearing date of Nov. 8th. That’s good news for the company, since a delisting is traditionally delayed […]

More than 35 million devices already run MontaVista Linux, but the embedded Linux vendor isn’t resting. The company today announced Mobilinux version 5, its way of pushing Linux further into the embedded device space while staving off competitors. Based on the Real-Time Linux-enhanced 2.6.21 kernel, Mobilinux 5 promises better security, performance and power consumption over […]

A free Unix-like OS need not be feared as something that isn’t accessible or usable on a desktop. At least that’s the hope with the latest release of PC-BSD version 1.4. The release includes a long list of fixes and improvements, with a focus on making the desktop BSD OS easier to set up and […]

In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives. But what about context? What about connecting related information and content in a semantic context? The hyperlink of the early era isn’t […]

Saving power has become a mainstream concern in the enterprise and at home, as IT users aim to cut costs and do their part to help save the planet. There are a lot of different ways that technology users can reduce their power, and chip maker Intel is putting a number of them under one […]

Yahoo is strengthening its enterprise collaboration and e-mail capabilities with the $350 million cash purchase of open source e-mail collaboration startup Zimbra. It is not clear as to how many of Zimbra’s 100 employees Yahoo will retain, but according to a Q&A posted on Zimbra’s site, Zimbra’s co-founder and CEO, Satish Dharmaraj, CTO Scott Dietzen […]

The fact that Linux is big business for IBM should come as no surprise to those who follow Big Blue. During the last decade IBM has steadily ramped up its Linux efforts to the point where it has now become a core offering across IBM’s server and software product lines. Sitting at the helm of […]

There was a time when all a carrier had to do to meet demand was increase its bandwidth. But with average revenue per user (ARPU) trending flat, carriers are under increasing demand to get more out of their networks than an increase in bandwidth will provide. The answer, according to Yankee Group analyst Mark Bieberich, […]