The reports from the second day of discussions at the 2009 kernel summit will be a little slow in coming; getting them out more quickly would interfere with your editor's enjoyment of the conference dinner. In the mean time, though, here is the traditional group photo.

Yesterday, Network World rolled out a new podcast series, Open Mic with Zonker, hosted by openSUSE community manager, Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier.

ABLEconf has announced its schedule for October 24th, and features a wide variety of talks that touch on topics such as virtualization, computer security, overviews of various open source projects, and practical use of open source in a business environment.

John Lilly wants it both ways. Working at Mozilla Corporation since 2005 and as chief executive since early 2008, he helped oversee a remarkable achievement. Mozilla has built the Firefox browser from a largely unsuccessful remnant of the Netscape era of the 1990s into the browser that nearly a quarter of people on the Web use. Now the challenges are different.

Microsoft Windows, the dominant desktop OS in the world has over the years made some contribution to the world that the open source competitor Linux is yet to make

You might know I'm an hybrid kind of guy: I run Free Software as much as I can, but if I have to run proprietary software to have something that works, and that pays the bills, I will. Lately, I'm getting more and more irked by the “Free Software Fundamentalists” that preach that no proprietary software has the right to exist any longer.

There are two sides to every coin. Every cloud has a silver lining. Linux is not all about rainbow pops and glittery unicorns. Without the bad there is no way you can appreciate the good. At the risk of being called an ms shill again (I am still chuckling over that one) I am going to explore the dark side of Linux.