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Xj3D is an open source toolkit for X3D (the XML and network-savvy successor to VRML). This new Xj3D M10 is the first release with an installer for Linux.

With new threats showing up every day, administrators find it increasingly hard to establish continued trust with their filesystems. Luckily, it's easier than you might think to maintain omniscient control of your filesystem. Through effective use of a filesystem integrity checker, you can keep a watchful eye on every aspect of an important machine's filesystem.

Organizations must consider licensing, platform differences carefully.

Companies can weigh the benefits of expanded help and bug fixes in commercial Linux alternatives.

IBM on Thursday unveiled a plan to spend $100 million over the next three years to build support for Linux into desktop applications for its Workplace software.

Tectonic Magazine, the first of its kind in South Africa, get overwhelmingly positive reception from local community.

It says: The European Parliament has thrown out a bill that would have allowed software to be patented. But I have seen this so often only to read another back door approach is immenient. What's the scoop on this?

McObject has announced the impending release of eXtremeSQL, a high-performance implementation of the popular SQL database programming language for use with eXtremeDB, which is an in-memory database for intelligent Linux devices. According to the company, eXtremeSQL serves the real-time enterprise Linux software market by greatly simplifying database programming.

When eWEEK Labs analysts want to puncture a software vendor's exaggerated claims, they often ask if the next release will cure world hunger.

The European Parliament is unequivocal: the software patents directive needs to go back to the drawing board. But the jury is still out on whether the Commission will listen.

BOSTON - Linux is easier to deploy and maintain than its reputation might suggest, IT company executives said at LinuxWorld this week.

Day Two offered smaller scale press events and product announcements.

Why wait? Citadel delivers all of your favorite groupware features plus much more today, not a year from now.

Leaders from three separate but related -- and incredibly successful -- free/open source projects agree: If you want the project to move to the next level, let go and let the community take over. We asked Larry Wall, creator of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, the Apache Project leader; and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, for their thoughts on why this happens and how they and their projects have fared as a result.

Software company SCO Group Inc. Thursday said it may be delisted from the Nasdaq SmallCap market as a result of its failure to file its year-end earnings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a timely fashion.

Win4Lin Pro Becomes Flagship Product for Running Windows Applications on Linux LinuxWorld Boston 2005

A look at who's in Boston this week, on both sides of the exhibition hall.

Do you want to track more than 50 different open-source licenses? I know I don't, and the open-source community is getting tired of it too.

Sun Microsystems has pushed back the delivery date of a server family built around Opteron chips, as it makes adds and tweaks to the lineup.

Earlier this month, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) announced its existence. General coverage of the event stressed the Center's board of directors -- virtually a Who's Who of the legal experts on free and open source software (FOSS) -- its initial funding, and the increasing legal threats that loom behind its creation. Yet behind the facts of the news release is a larger story.