Sean Michael Kerner

With CVS, Subversion and a slew of other rival open source version control systems out there, the Canonical-backed Bazaar has its work cut out for it. In a move to make the adoption process simpler, Canonical is now offering paid support services. Linux Planet covers the news. At the heart of every serious software development […]

Memcached is getting the cloud treatment courtesy of Gear6 in a bid to help further leverage the strengths of the open source distributed caching system. Datamation takes a look. Memcached, the open source distributed memory-based object caching system that enables Web 2.0 applications to scale to meet the needs of high-traffic production usage, is headed […]

Google continues rolling out new tools for Web developers — after all, Web apps are increasingly important to the company’s efforts beyond pure search. This week, that resulted in the launch of Google Web Tools 2.0. Developer.com digs into the release. Web-based applications are at the core of Google’s strategy. As a result, it’s not […]

From the ‘Open Source Takes Time‘ files: A year after acquiring the SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment) hosted virtual desktop protocol from Qumranet, Red Hat is now open sourcing it.  Red Hat bought Qumranet in 2008 for $107 million as a way to boost its virtualization business, now based on KVM , which […]

From the ‘There’s An App For That‘ files: Back in September, Novell launched MonoTouch which is way to build .NET applications for Apple’s iPhone. It’s based on the Novell led  Mono project which is an effort to create an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. In the span of four months, Novell is iterating quickly […]

Has the mighty Cisco lost a step? CEO John Chambers makes some candid admissions at the networking giant’s analyst day. Enterprise Networking Planet has Chambers’ take on the Cisco’s missteps in routers and switching, and where the company is going next. With over $30 billion in cash and strong market leadership in nearly every business […]

Datamation examines Novell’s efforts to knit together a number of its diverse areas of expertise into an offering for businesses looking to get a better grip on managing their physical, virtual and cloud-based workloads. Novell’s business spans a number of IT areas, including Linux, groupware, security, business services management and virtualization products. Today, the company […]

GNOME is getting a makeover. The venerable Linux desktop environment and development platform is making its way toward its next major release, and this weekend, its supporters dropped a few hints on what to expect. LinuxPlanet takes a look. TORONTO — For many Linux desktop users, GNOME is their home. But it’s a home that’s […]

It’s not like spam is going away anytime soon, but in a surprising development reported by eSecurity Planet, the U.S. has dropped to the number two spot as the world’s top spammer in stats compiled by Cisco. While U.S.-originated spam volumes are on the decline, Cisco’s State of the Internet 2009 security report highlighted a […]

From the ‘Superior Siblings’ files: Mozilla today officially released Thunderbird 3.0, it’s next generation email client. It’s got lots of interesting features, but is it too little too late? Thunderbird 3.0 is the first major release of Thunderbird in years and that’s a very bad thing in my view. Unlike its cousin Firefox which has […]

From the ‘Does It Matter?‘ files: Six months ago, Google began its official publicly available effort to land the Chrome browser on Apple Macs and Linux computers. At first the Linux and Mac builds were barely usable with no plug-in or printing support and frequent crashes. In my own personal experience on Linux, Chrome-dev has […]

Fedora’s Paul Frields Red Hat’s Fedora distribution is name after one hat but it wears many: It is among the most world’s most popular Linux distributions, it is Red Hat’s closer contact to the open source community (as opposed to its business-oriented Enterprise Linux products) and with its short upgrade cycles, it also is something […]