Let’s see. I need to write something for the Welcome column. I guess eventually it might get posted online, which means I’m writing something for the new web.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

• Linux Foundation reports Secure Boot solution
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Plasma Active 3
• Android OS Tops
• Linaro Enterprise
• Group formed for ARM architecture
• Android installed on 3 of 4 smartphones

• Community Edition of ownCloud Released
• Phusion Releases Passenger Enterprise 4
• VMware Announces Micro Cloud Foundry Changes

I’m looking at another crop of press releases and marveling at the ever-expanding market for products that fall under the ubiquitous heading of Big Data. Big Data is everywhere. (Or is it Big Data are everywhere – to reprise that classic quandary?) Gigantic file storage appliances from vendors like Oracle and HP and software tools like Apache Hadoop continually add new building blocks to the data infrastructure. And the goal of all this? Apart from more conventional uses for scientific modeling and analysis, one of the reasons for this huge interest in accumulating data is a phenomenon known as data mining, which Wikipedia defines as a process that “attempts to discover patterns in large data sets.”

Security and the Open Cloud were featured at the most recent LinuxCon event.

With Free Software, some ingenuity, and a lot of drive, a friend brings knowledge, technology, and hope to a “disadvantaged” corner of his world.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.