Sean Michael Kerner

The next big thing for enterprise Java isn’t quite ready yet, but that’s not stopping Sun Microsystems from rolling out an app server release that shows off some early Java EE 6 features. Sun’s GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude is a modular Java application server that is targeted at the web tier of applications. The […]

Opera is out with a new browser – Opera 9.62 which patches a pair of highly servere security vulnerabilities. One of them exploit a flaw in the History Search function – which is an attack vector that I personally have never seen before. According to Opera’s advisory: When certain parameters are passed to Opera’s History […]

The open source systems and network management space is heating up with new releases coming soon from vendors Groundwork, Hyperic and Zenoss. Among the new features that will appear in the respective vendors new releases are improved cloud features, virtualization, network management and improved Java app server features. Each of the open source vendors is […]

UPDATED: It takes money and it takes new ideas to build a better desktop, both of which are being raised by the open source GNOME Foundation. GNOME is one of the most popular Linux desktop GUIs and is included in nearly every Linux distribution. The GNOME Foundation is now getting the official support of both […]

Every *nix type of OS has it’s own little logo and a story to go with it. The image accompanying the OpenBSD 4.4 release is a bit different though, with a take on a classic Star Wars poster from 1977 (I’ve copied a thumbnail on the left – click to see the full image on […]

One of the key features of Solaris 10 is its Zettabyte File System (ZFS) that provides more storage flexibility and scalability to Unix. For the past four years, however, ZFS was not integrated into the deepest parts of the Solaris operating system — a shortcoming that denied administrators access to its advanced administration and recovery […]

From the “busy, busy” files: Our weekly Week in Preview podcast is now up!  The week of November 3, 2008 is shaping up to be a very busy week. For one it’s election week in the US which is something that our Exec Editor Erin Joyce chats about in connection to technology. Andy Patrizio wraps […]

From the “not far now…” files: The next big release from Mozilla – Firefox 3.1 is getting a little bit closer to release (just a little).  According to the latest update from Mozilla, a code freeze for Firefox 3.1 is now set for Nov 4-6 with release builds expected to be available on November 11th. […]

For some, the Linux operating system is about offering an alternative to proprietary commercial systems. For Ubuntu Linux and its new Intrepid Ibex distribution, it’s also about offering more features that extend usability and effectiveness. Intrepid Ibex — the name for Ubuntu version 8.10 — is being released today with a host of new features […]

From the “developers always have the best stuff first” files: Google is updating it’s mainline Chrome users today with its Chrome 0.3.154.9 update. The update is the first major update for mainline Chrome users since the 0.2.149.30 release. So yeaah that’s a big jump in numbers between releases. But if you’ve been running the Developer […]

At the heart of every operating system is the file system that provides read/write access to data. Since 2001, Ext3 has been the mainstay of Linux file systems. But the winds of change could be blowing toward a better file system in the works. BTRFS (pronounced better FS) is currently under development in an effort […]

Most organizations around the world have some kind of IT security policy in place. But they’re still at risk since the policy isn’t always adhered to, and in some cases, it’s not communicated properly to users. Those are some of the key findings of new statistical data from a Cisco-sponsored study on the global security […]