Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Where is RHEL 6?’ files: Red Hat today announced the first beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 — on the eve of a major Red Hat event in San Francisco, where we could be hearing about the release of RHEL 6. But first we’ve got RHEL 5.6 (beta) today, providing some updated […]

Google may have discontinued its Wave collaboration service as a consumer-facing product, but Novell and the developer community remain actively engaged in the underlying federation protocol. Novell first announced its cloud-based collaboration platform in March under the name Pulse. Now, rebranded as Novell Vibe, the platform is available in its first open beta release, offering […]

From the ‘Many Happy Returns’ files: It was six years ago today that Mozilla officially released Firefox 1.0. Yes, I was writing about Firefox back in 2004 too when 1.0 came out. 2004 was an exciting time for Firefox, it was literally changing the way we see, use, and work with the web. After six […]

Perhaps it’s not surprising that more IT workers are bound by policies governing the use of technology than non-IT workers. But when a minority of non-IT workers say their companies don’t have a policy at all, and most of those who do say it needs improvement, something is out of whack. But it doesn’t have […]

From the ‘Speedy Desktop‘ files: The first public milestone of the Xfce 4.8 Linux desktop is now out, giving Linux users the first taste of this powerful, yet minimal interface. With Xfce 4.8 developers have incorporated a long list of changes. Among the biggest items that I see in this new release (so far) is […]

More and more solutions and support options are emerging designed to help with the inevitable migration to IPv6. Datamation looks at the latest move by network equipment supplier Juniper to help with the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. While the issue of IPv4’s dwindling address space may not be widely known, Juniper officials say it’s […]

How do networking vendors distinguish their products? Speed and performance are two important measures. As Enterprise Networking Planet details, a team of a hundred engineers at Broadcom spent two years developing its latest solution, the BCM88600 series of Ethernet switching silicon. Broadcom’s products are used by a variety of switching and routing vendors. The BCM88600 […]

From the ‘Unity Spells Change‘ files: As if moving away from the GNOME Shell wasn’t enough, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has now announced that Ubuntu is moving away from X too. Yes — X, the primary X Window tech that has powered all *nix graphics since the beginning. Instead, Shuttleworth wants to move to […]

Not all open source projects succeed. The ones that do generally attract a dedicated community of contributors. Datamation details the path to success of the Drupal project, which had very humble beginnings in a college dorm room. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert shared his six key secrets to open source success at the Zendcon PHP conference. […]

One of the ways Google’s grown to dominate the search engine market has been its emphasis on speed. Google consistently provides results in a fraction of a second. Now, as Server Watch details, Google is helping to speed up the Web itself with a technology contribution to the open source Apache Web Server. Sites that […]

From the ‘Ubuntu Unity Doesn’t Scare Us!‘ files: It’s been over a week since, Ubuntu dropped the bombshell that it was going with its own Unity user interface instead of GNOME Shell, for the next Ubuntu Linux release. While some in the open source community have had a negative viewpoint on Ubuntu’s move away from […]

Robert Kerner, vice-president at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said that business needs change and software development needs to change along with them. One way that NYSE has become more agile has been to turn to open source technologies including PHP and the popular Drupal content management system. Kerner said that the NYSE keeps developers […]