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The folks at the corporation that used to be called "Big Blue" and to which I nowadays refer to as "I Buy Microsoft" due to its reluctance to migrate to Linux internally has let go its commercial Rexx programming language product. This is now open source and handled by an independent association. The first open source version of the Open Object Rexx interpreter was made available for download last Monday.

Linux vendor MontaVista Software Wednesday released an initiative that it said should encourage development of Linux smartphones and other mobile devices.

IBM today lifted the lid on a range of entry-level Unix and Linux servers based on its Power5 processor architecture. "Never before has IBM offered a eServer p5 system to the Unix marketplace at a starting price under $4,000," the company claimed.

In addition to the same old accusations of lack of familiarity, applications, and support, Linux on the desktop may be facing an attack against its one clear advantage -- price. Microsoft may be willing to make deep price cuts to staunch a potential market outflow to Linux, according to Amy Wohl, a longtime software industry observer who presented a Linux desktop achievement report at the recent OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit in San Francisco.

A look at two open-source refactoring tools, Eclipse for Java and Bicycle Repair Man for Python.

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT's Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100 (£53).

CGL 3.0 Released as Adoption of Linux in Communication Infrastructure Accelerates

With the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD-5-STABLE, Solaris 10, and now NetBSD 2.0, you might be wondering which of them offers superior database performance. In my previous article, I discussed the tools I chose to test these venerable operating systems and the methodology by which they were tested. The result is this MySQL performance comparison between OpenBSD 3.6; NetBSD 2.0; FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10; Solaris Express (build 69); and Linux 2.4 and 2.6 (Gentoo-based). Read on for the results.

Red Hat and Tally will be working jointly to make Tally, a popular accounting software package available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, according to an announcement made by Red Hat today.

Hewlett-Packard is working to take Linux into several new areas of the server market, including 64-processor servers, the company is expected to announce Wednesday, on the eve of a major Linux trade show.

Keeping a server or workstation updated with the latest security patches can be a daunting task. Compounding the problem is the number of distinct operating systems and hardware in an organization. Nessus, an open source vulnerability scanner, can help with this complex task.

A few months ago, I tried a beta version of Mozilla's free e-mail program Thunderbird. Despite the accomplishments of their Web browser Firefox, Thunderbird just wasn't ready for prime time. It was a little less than stable, and it choked when importing large volumes of e-mail archives from other programs.

Shawn Burke, a development manager at Microsoft's Windows Forms team is telling interested readers who go to his bog, here that he would like to release the source code to the software developers. He said he has wanted to do it for years and is putting together a plan to make it happen.

An Internet browser feature meant to permit Web addresses in Chinese, Arabic and other languages could encourage online fraudsters by making scam Web sites look legitimate to visitors.

Even if the users still want to use Windows on the desktop, you can put Linux behind the scenes.

Mandrakesoft today announced that its newly released Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 server solution has received LSB 2.0 certification, following its longstanding tradition of support for open standards.

MontaVista Software launched a program Monday to make it simpler for cell phone makers and wireless carriers to use the Linux operating system.

We're barely into 2005, and we're already seeing another landmark innovation in information technology: the new Cell chip, which could revolutionize our entire industry with its tremendous clock speeds of more than 4 GHz. It's been in R&D since 2001 and was developed by a consortium of companies: IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.

"More! More!" we hear you shout, and we obey. Yea, verily, ask and ye shall get more Linux stuff . . . even though our editor can hardly contain his enthusiasm.

When the BMW Williams Formula One team set out to design a better car for the 2005 season they turned to supercomputers running Linux to get a much needed edge