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One of the most complicated pieces of software in the world is a 3-D engine, right? Not according to Nikolaus Gebhardt. He's almost single-handedly created his own open source-capable 3-D engine, Irrlicht. Howard Wen talks with him about the design, implementation, and goals of the project.

Volunteers in the Western Cape will this weekend install the 100th Linux-based school laboratory since the Shuttleworth Foundation-backed tuXlab programme started. The programme has also finalised plans to roll out another 100 laboratories in the coming year and install ten new laboratories on the Youth Day public holiday next week.

HP is talking with its partners about bringing Linux to its NonStop, the former Tandem computer, line.

NEW ORLEANS -- The third and final day of the inaugural Red Hat Summit opened with a bombshell in the keynote address delivered by Red Hat Deputy General Counsel Mark Webbink: Red Hat is freeing the Fedora project to allow it to become a fully independent entity. Red Hat will continue to support Fedora financially, but the project will be governed by an independent board of directors.

IBM's Wladawsky-Berger tells the Red Hat Summit crowd that convergence and advances in technology are driving innovation.

Microsoft has invited Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, to start a constructive dialogue. Tiemann says he'll take the offer at face value but calls it an"attempt to quell an internal civil war" at Microsoft.

According to a survey released June 1 by Microsoft Certified Partner Port80 Software, 53.8% of all Fortune 1000 company Web sites are powered by Windows and Microsoft's IIS servers, while only 21.2% of these giant companies use Apache and other open source software to run their corporate Web presences. This means these companies offer a huge potential market for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) vendors and service providers.

The deal gives Health and Human Services employees unlimited access to a range of Novell products, but there's no plan to unseat Microsoft software

Red Hat has announced a strong commitment to implement patent reforms to remove barriers to innovation, according to a press release issued from New Orleans.

The first product released under Novell's Validated Configuration Programme could persuade more companies to use open source software across their systems

The company creates the Fedora Foundation to encourage further outside development of its free Fedora software.

As the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is readying a group to tackle the issues of licence proliferation, earlier proposals to solve the problem have fallen into disgrace, vnunet.com has learnt.

Independent journalist Frederick Noronha blogged his way through the Asia Source open source developer workshop in India earlier this year. Now he has collected all his writings over the entire workshop and released them as a small book which offers a fascinating insight into the state of open source software, not only in Asia, but throughout the world.

Whatever happened to LinuxFund, the fund that was supposed to support Linux through credit card use? LinuxFund was begun as "a fun project by a bunch of kids," according to LinuxFund founder Benjamin Cox, who has not been involved with the project for nearly three years. Today the project has been largely abandoned, but payments into the fund keep on coming.

Microsoft has made one of its most direct overtures to the open-source software community to date, in the form of an invitation to Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), to begin a "productive conversation".

Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel for Red Hat, announced in his keynote address this morning at the Red Hat Summit that Red Hat is freeing the Fedora project from its direct control. Red Hat has created the Fedora Foundation -- to be run by an independent board of directors -- which will direct and control the project from now on. Webbink said Red Hat made this move because it listened to the Fedora community when it said it would be more comfortable about the project if it were not directly owned by a commercial firm.

...computers here now use the Linux operating system. It has many similar functions to Microsoft's Windows - but unlike Windows, it is available for free. Increasingly, Brazil's government ministries and state-run enterprises are abandoning Windows in favour of 'open-source' or 'free' software, like Linux.

Linux vendor Red Hat is adding virtualisation technology to its offering of open source applications, chief executive Matthew Szulik told vnunet.com in an interview at the Red Hat Summit in New Orleans.

Some observers attribute the growth of Linux servers to the migration of lower-end platforms, such as old Windows NT or Novell file and print boxes, to Linux. The open source operating system is still at the periphery in enterprises and not in large data centers, they say.

Free and open-source software enthusiasts from around the Northwest headed to Bellingham recently for this annual event.