Sean Michael Kerner

Those that have been eager to get a taste of Red Hat’s next version of Enterprise Linux now have their chance. Red Hat’s community of enterprise users is now testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Beta 1, code-named Tikanga. Though some had expected the first beta of RHEL 5 sooner, a Red Hat spokesperson […]

For those who followed the Silicon Valley boom of the late 90s, Kim Polese might be quite a familiar name. In 1996, Polese founded Marimba, which was one of the first companies in the $100 million Java Fund, which venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers started that same year. In March 1997, Time […]

The promise of open source development is free software. The pain of open source software is often that you have to rely on free community resources to support it. That’s no longer the case with Eclipse, thanks to IBM . Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, IBM will be providing a paid commercial […]

With the EclipseWorld conference kicking off this week in Boston, it would be easy to think the open source Java tools project is everywhere. According to the latest research from Evans Data, it is everywhere with developers. Evans Data is reporting in its 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise Survey Research Findings that 60 percent of […]

Though it may seem transparent to some, sitting underneath networking hardware appliances such as firewalls and VPNs, there actually is an operating system. For Juniper Networks , that OS in many cases is its own ScreenOS, which is getting a dramatic overhaul in its latest release. ScreenOS 5.4 offers new Unified Threat Management (UTM), Unified […]

John Roberts is a man on a mission to change the CRM industry. As the founder and CEO of open source startup SugarCRM, Roberts is competing in an industry with strongly entrenched and well-financed competitors. Roberts officially launched SugarCRM in April 2004 and has since issued no fewer than eight major releases of his core […]

Gentoo Linux 2006.1 is now out offering users the latest in package updates for the community-built meta-distribution. The release also offers support for an interesting processor, the Hitachi SuperH, which is included in Sega’s long-dead Dreamcast game console. The 2006.1 release is the second official milestone release from Gentoo this year and follows the 2006.0 […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been the dominant Web browser (almost) since the birth of the Web. It runs on Microsoft’s Windows and on Apple’s Mac, but it has never been officially supported on Linux. A nascent open source effort called IEs 4 Linux is trying to change that. This week, the group released its latest […]

Mozilla is a step closer to the final release of Firefox 2.0 today, with the official release of Beta 2. Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 includes a visual refresh of the browser’s default theme. The latest version also improves upon tabbed browsing, which helps to better differentiate between active and non-active tabs. It also addresses tab […]

Perhaps the easiest way to evaluate Linux and other open source applications is by running them on top of Microsoft Windows. Virtually. There’s no mess and no installation, and you can still run Windows in the background. And there are hundreds of applications to choose from. All for free. Think all this comes from an […]

It is quite unlikely that any of us will ever see an open source version of Microsoft Windows in our lifetimes. Or is it? Though such an effort is not forthcoming from Redmond, the ReactOS open source project has been trying to come up with an open source “clone” of Windows for 10 years. With […]

Ever wanted to run Fedora Core Linux as a Live CD? Well now you can. Though Red Hat’s sponsored community distribution, Fedora Core, includes a lot of applications and has an easy-to-use installer, it has long been missing a critical piece, namely a Live CD. The Live Fedora CD is a product of the FedoraUnity.org […]