Sean Michael Kerner

For most developers, the IDE is where many start their coding efforts. Yet an IDE itself is just a development tool, and developers still require a place to host their source code. It’s a gap that Sun is hoping to bridge with the release of its new NetBeans 6.7 IDE, which includes integrated support for […]

From the ‘that’s a lot of downloads‘ files: SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads. Since 1999, SourceForge has the ‘go to place’ for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge. Remember also for […]

From the ‘Roman Emperors of Sparta‘ files: Red Hat’s Fedora Linux community has now voted in a name for the upcoming Fedora 12 release. Constantine beat out four other rivals names including: Chilon, Orville, Rugosa and Umbria. Fedora 12 succeeds Fedora 11’s Leonidas (a Spartan King) with the name of a famous Roman Emperor. It’s […]

Mozilla is set to release its new Firefox 3.5 browser as early as next week after a year of development. The new release will include a number of new features, but don’t expect to see many features that were inspired by the new arrival of Google on the Web browser scene with its Chrome browser. […]

The governing body of the Internet is getting a new CEO. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said that Rod Beckstrom will replace outgoing CEO Paul Twomey, who announced his plans to step down in March. Beckstrom formerly served as director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, a post he held until […]

As virtualization usage grows in datacenters and enterprise deployments, so too does the need to ensure that virtual assets are protected from real security threats. In response, Sourcefire, the lead commercial vendor behind the open source Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), is now ramping up a new virtual security offering for VMware virtual environments. Sourcefire’s […]

From the ‘whatever happened to PHP 6?‘ files: PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since […]

From the ‘doesn’t everyone use Flash now?‘ files: Adobe is advising users of its Shockwave player to update to a new version to protect against a critical remotely exploitable flaw. The flaw affects Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.0.596 and earlier versions and according to Adobe’s advisory, “… could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability […]

With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language. One of those opinions is being voiced by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who is calling on Oracle to keep […]

From the ‘faster browsers for Linux‘ files: Google’s Chrome browser has only officially been available for Linux and Mac users since early June. Since then, Google has updated the browser once, keeping it at the same version number for Windows, Linux and Mac. That is now changing with the 3.0.190.x release for the dev-channel version […]