Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browsers on the planet, and thanks to Mozilla’s meticulous keeping of stats and statistics on its usage, we can get a glimpse into how the open source browser’s fans are using it. For instance, although Firefox averages a global market share of 30 percent, it’s absolutely dominant […]

From the ‘Where Does He Get Those Names?‘ files: What follows a Lucid Lynx? Why none other than a Maverick Meerkat. Well at least it does for Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu founder and self-appointed-dictator-for-life Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the Ubuntu 10.10 release would be codenamed the Maverick Meerkat. Now if he had announced this yesterday […]

From the ‘Three-Eyed Alien‘ files: The next major release of Debian GNU/Linux is taking shape – albeit without the explicit direction of a Release Manager and with some significant hurdles to overcome. Squeeze (named after the three-eyed aliens in Toy Story) will be the first major Debian release since Lenny came out in February of […]

When you think of Cisco Systems, you think enterprise networking. It’s not exactly the first name in home networking, when in fact it does play in that space. It owns Linksys, the popular maker of mass market routers and other network devices, and it also owns Pure Digital, maker of the Flip video camera. Cisco […]

The Ruby programming language has gained in popularity due to its easy to use syntax. One of many projects involving the language – the creation of a Japanese programmer – was to port it to Java. The three developers working on Ruby-on-Java – officially known as JRuby – were hired by Sun Microsystems in 2006, […]

Cisco is bringing its brand to entry-level networking consumers with a new wireless router product line it’s calling Valet. The Valet is an effort by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) to mimic the simplicity of its Flip video camera for the needs of home networking users. Flip’s parent company, Pure Digital, was acquired by Cisco last year for […]

As Mozilla plans to wind down the 3.0 branch of its Firefox browser, it has issued what it expects to be the final security patch for that branch of the browser. The update also addresses vulnerabilities — some critical — in the 3.5 version of the browser. Datamation looks at Mozilla’s Firefox security update, which […]

Red Hat has given its flagship Linux server a major upgrade. Version 5.5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is tailored around advances in virtualization technology and new interoperability features in Windows, as well as speedy new processor offerings from Intel and AMD. And that’s not the end of the story. Red Hat’s latest comes as […]

Normally a wireless player, Aruba is entering the wired WAN acceleration market and the cloud security market, both with the same device. Enterprise Networking Planet explains how they do it. Why put networking assets on-site when you can put them in the cloud? That’s part of the premise of the new Virtual Branch Network 2.0 […]

SCO Group got its day in court, but the jury sided with rival Novell in the matter of who actually owns the patents and copyrights to Unix System V. The decision marks the latest in a years-long fight between the two companies — a fight that could have serious implications for Unix and Linux, and […]

Apple is updating Mac OS X to patch a slew of security holes in a variety of core OS X features and open source components. The update to OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” fixes nearly as many vulnerabilities as Apple locked down in its last major Snow Leopard update in November. Addressed in the newest […]

Virtualization is a hot topic, particularly in the enterprise where budget constraints are forcing IT departments to consider a range of technology solutions designed to rein in costs. Datamation details Linux vendor Red Hat’s latest moves related to virtualization which span both the desktop and server. Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the beta […]