“Future is very bright!”

That is the second-to-last slide of Steve French's final sambaXP talk. He recorded it at home in April, because he was already too ill to travel to Göttingen.

Steve died on 21 August 2026, a few days after handing over maintainership of the Linux kernel's SMB client because of…

How does Linux work? What actually happens in a network? And how do a few commands and your first lines of code turn into your own project? From 3 to 7 August, ten participants with an interest in technology were able to find out exactly that at the five-day Linux.Camp at SerNet – through trial and…

Open source, digital sovereignty and the pitfalls of passkeys: Dr Johannes Loxen, Head of OSPO at SerNet, discusses these topics in the latest episode of the TeleTrusT podcast series “Open Source and Modern Authentication”, alongside Christian Schorr (keyONE) and presenter Carsten Vossel (CCVOSSEL).…