Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘forking open source‘ files: Nagios is critical open source application providing monitoring capabilities that are widely used (by millions?) by many including myself. Yet apparently the pace of Nagios evolution wasn’t fast enough or inclusive enough for all, so a group of contributors is now forking Nagios and making their own Nagios-based open […]

From the ‘Linux has it all’ files: It wasn’t all that long ago that Moonlight 1.0 was released providing Linux users with a way to run Microsoft Silverlight media on their screens. Now Novell is out with the Moonlight 2.0 preview, including expanded functionality and compatibility with Microsoft’s media framework. While Moonlight 1.0 includes some […]

From the ‘more fun with numbers‘ files: The open source Firefox web browser from Mozilla now has some 270 million users. That’s the figure that Mozilla staffer Aza Dotzler is now claiming, and it’s not an easy number to calculate. How do you count users for an open source application that does not require registrations? […]

100-gigabit network connectivity is almost here. The fastest bandwidth in the world today that is commercially deployed is 40 gigabits per second (OC-768), but that is about to change as the NYSE Euronext is set to deploy 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100G) networking gear in its datacenters. The new 100G connections come from networking vendor Ciena […]

From the ‘that didn’t take long‘ files: Zend Server, the new PHP server that was just released last month, is now out with its new 4.0.2 release.  The new release is bug fix and feature update release. Zend claims to have fixed over 80 bugs with 4.0.2. It also marks the debut of the first […]

From the ‘statistics are flexible‘ files: There has been a lot of noise this week about new numbers from NetApplications showing Linux at 1 percent. That’s 1 percent on the desktop as measured by one firm’s sampling of a very large market. The number of 1 percent on the desktop however does not show the […]

Juniper’s new SRX 650Source: Juniper Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR) is aiming to capitalize on growing interest among enterprise buyers for its networking lineup, today introducing new service gateway router and switch offerings. In total, Juniper is adding four new products to its SRX series and one new EX switch, which also add in new security, routing and […]

From the ‘the little beastie is out‘ files: FreeBSD 7.2 is now out and it includes a long list of updates and even a few new features. At the top of the list is improved memory management with superpages for memory allocation. No superpages are not A ‘yellow pages’ type of printed directory, but rather […]

SpringSource, a player in open source Java frameworks, is moving to add Java application management to its offerings — today acquiring open source systems management vendor Hyperic. Through the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero will now become the CTO of management products at SpringSource. As result of the move, […]

PHP developers will have new ways to easily connect their PHP applications to the cloud, thanks to the latest version of the open source Zend Framework. Zend Framework 1.8 expands the PHP framework to work with Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Zend Framework has also added new rapid application development (RAD) features to accelerate PHP […]

From the ‘BSD people with a great sense of humor‘ files: There are a lot of things that can be said about OpenBSD releases. For one, they’re always entertaining. Today, OpenBSD 4.5 is officially being released along with a new song to promote the open source operating system release. Yes this BSD has its own […]

Every six months, Sun updates its Solaris 10 operating system to include bug fixes as well as feature updates. That continues to be the case, even though it’s likely to be the last release before Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) becomes acquired by Oracle. Today, the company officially released the Solaris 10 5/09 release, providing new Intel […]