Sean Michael Kerner

I have to admit that I’ve never been much of a SimCity fan though of course I know plenty of people that were addicted to that game at one point or another. The latest twist in SimCity land isn’t a new mod or expansion back but is the open sourcing of the SimCity source code […]

There was allot of hype a month ago in the blog world surrounding the announcement of Movable Type going open source. At the time Anil Dash wrote: As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. That […]

While IBM is huge Open Source backer, when it comes to a legacy piece of their own proprietary code, Open Source apparently isn’t an option. OS/2 backers have sent a petition to IBM (actually their second such petition in the last few years) to get OS/2 open sourced. IBM isn’t biting. As stated in our […]

In a big win for the GPLv3 license, Trolltech is now set make its Qt toolset available as GPLv3. Trolltech announced the move at the KDE 4 launch party which was recently held at the Googleplex. The general idea is that since Qt is now GPLv3, KDE (which is based on Qt) can now become […]

From the how many Beta’s makes a release file… Mozilla is currently in the final stages of making their next generation Firefox 3 browser release. Beta 3 of Firefox 3 should be out in a week or so following testing which begins on Monday February 4th. Even though full scale testing hasn’t yet started, Mozilla […]

Big day for IPv6 today. IPv6 takes a major step forward towards reality today with AAAA records for IPv6 addresses added to four of the key root DNS servers that power the Internet. IPv6 AAAA records are a key resource record type for storing IPv6 address information on DNS servers. What it means in laymans […]

First off I have to admit that I don’t care for Super Bowl commercials, I’m more interested in technology – real technology – the stuff that people use to improve their lives and enhance productivity. While FOX had alot of high tech wizardry (overlay first down lines, amazing camera angles etc), and coaches on both […]

Unlike Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird has never been a particularly successfully project. Both Firefox and Thunderbird were split out from the Mozilla Suite (which was based on the monolithic Netscape Navigator codebase) at the same time. Firefox picked up momentum, Thunderbird didn’t. The reasons why one project has flourished and the other floundered are many and […]

Some interesting leadership shifts in the Linux distro space. Over at Fedora Max Spevack whom i’ve spoken with numerous times since he became the Fedora Project Leader is stepping down at the end of the month.Paul Frields who is no stranger to the Fedora Community will be taking over. It’s a big change for Red […]

From the wacky names we call products file.. Red Hat’s Fedora Linux community has settled on a name for their next distribution release. Instead of it being an executive decision of some sort, Fedora opened up the process in a voting contest with the winner being – Sulphur. Fedora 8 had the code name Werewolf  […]

It looks like Daniel Robbins – the guy that founded the Gentoo Linux distribution – may soon be on his way back to Gentoo. Robbins left Gentoo a few years back, did a brief stint at Microsoft for a time and for the most part has remained at arm’s length from Gentoo. The Gentoo Foundation […]

In the battle for the heart and minds of the Linux community, community outreach matters. Aggressive outreach has been part of the recipe for success behind Red Hat’s Fedora Linux. Ubuntu has also emerged as one of the leading Linux offerings based on the strength of its community. Now Novell wants to catch up in […]