Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat’s Spacewalk project is getting into place. The project wants to feed development of the Red Hat Network Satellite product for system management. Satellite is a critical tool for Red Hat users as it provides management capabilities for multiple servers for software deployment and updates. Almost six months ago, Red Hat kicked off the […]

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) since its inception in 2007 has been about promoting open source application interoperability. It’s a mission that is now continuing under new leadership as the group strives to add new members to the 18 month old organization in the midst of a global recession. The OSA has shed a few […]

From the “better late than never” files: MySQL 5.1 is now out, but not everyone is happy about this oft-delayed open source database release. I’ve been hearing about MySQL 5.1 since at least 2006 and over the last two years there have been a few dates I’ve been told when it would be released. Earlier […]

Do people still gamble even in a recession? Apparently, they do — and in such numbers that it requires a speedy, powerful transaction and gaming system. At least, that’s the view of online global gambling giant PartyGaming. Of course, reducing costs during an economic slowdown is critical for any business. But the current economic climate […]

From the “little devil” files: FreeBSD 6.4 is now out and it’s likely to be the last release on the 6.x branch of the free operating system. The first FreeBSD 6 release came back in 2005, FreeBSD 6.1 came in 2006 and 6.2 in 2007. The FreeBSD 6.x branch became Legacy (that is not the […]

Millions of miles above us, a new networking technology is taking shape that could one day help improve how applications are networked on Earth. NASA is testing a network layer technology that can withstand the rigorous demands of space communication better than the standard TCP/IP protocol, which dominates terrestrial (non-space) networking technologies. Officially called Disruption […]

The largest leveraged buyout on record for a telecom vendor may not happen after all. Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE) has revealed that its plans to be acquired may not pass muster on a key provision after its auditing firm KPMG said it does not believe that BCE will pass a required solvency test for the […]

From the “what does Beta mean anyways?” files: InternetNews.com has learned that open source conferencing startup Dimdim is set to formally exit its beta period on December 3rd. Dimdim first demoed their software a year ago at DEMO – and their “Eagle” release came out in May of this year. Dimdim has also recently benefited […]

Despite a security breach earlier this year, Red Hat is out today with its tenth release of the Fedora Linux distribution, promising new open source security, virtualization and appliance-building technologies. The release of Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, had been delayed following the security breach in the Red Hat Fedora infrastructure. The launch also comes as […]

From the “wasn’t that there already?” files: Regular Google Chrome users to date have often boasted about Chrome’s speed, but you’ve likely never seen any boast about its ability to handle bookmarks. That’s because until today’s update to Google Chrome 0.4.154.18, Google’s browser had somewhat ‘limited’ bookmark manageability. The new bookmark manager has import/export functionality […]

Counting Linux users is no easy task since there is typically no requirement for users to register their installations. Yet Linux distributions do try and count users in an attempt to quantify their user base and relative footprint in the operating systems space. Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux distribution has now tallied its user base, […]

From the “it’s not my fault, it’s your fault” files: Worried that Internet Explorer is less secure than alternatives? Eric Lawrence Security Program Manager on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team argued on a Black Hat webcast about Clickjacking that Microsoft is not to blame. In fact, Lawrence essentially argued that it’s the browser add-ons that are […]