Free microsoft commercial software for linux

The Xbox Linux Project aims to privide a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox, so that it can be used as an ordinary computer.
Linux should make use of all Xbox hardware and allow to install and run software from standard i386 Linux distributions.
An Xbox with Linux can be a full desktop computer with mouse and keyboard, a web/email box connected to TV, a server or router or a node in a cluster.
You can either dual-boot or use Linux only; in the latter case, you can replace both IDE devices. And yes, you can connect the Xbox to a VGA monitor.
Main features:
- You can run Linux on your Xbox!
- You can do it without a modchip!
- You can do it without opening your Xbox!

Q Light Controller 2 (QLC) aims to be a free alternative to commercial lighting software and hardware. The main emphasis is to build a software that can be used to control any kinds of lighting equipment.
QLC uses the dmx4linux driver suite to access various hardware interfaces. Currently DMX512, Analog 0-10V and MIDI control systems are being supported by dmx4linux. Refer to dmx4linux interfaces for more information on supported interfaces.
Q Light Controller is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- Easy to use device-oriented interface
- Control up to 512 DMX/Analog channels thru DMX4Linux
- Use one of the ready-made fixture definitions, or
- Define your own fixtures with the device class editor
- Create fast changing or smoothly fading scenes, chasers and sequences
- Easy programming of moving lights thru a pattern generator
- Conjure your favourite lighting desk layout with the virtual console

Particle Reality is an extremely versatile Java particle engine, based on the ideas of the excellent commercial particle animation software Particle Illusion by wondertouch.

Particle Reality allows you to define all aspects of particle and particle emitter behavior over their entire lifetime in XML, allowing for a very flexible particle system.

Jakarta Projects goal is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion.

Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications.

Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up.

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages.
Irrlicht Engine is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.
Weve got a huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine.
You can find enhancements for Irrlicht all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings for java, perl, ruby, basic, python, lua, and so on. And best of all: Its completely free.
Main features:
- High performance realtime 3D rendering using Direct3D and OpenGL [more]
- Platform independent. Runs on Windows95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and Linux.[more]
- Huge built-in and extensible material library with vertex and pixel shader support [more].
- Seamless indoor and outdoor mixing through highly customizeable scene mangagment. [more]
- Character animation system with skeletal and morph target animation. [more]
- Particle effects, billboards, light maps, environment mapping, stencil buffer shadows, and lots of other special effects. [more]
- .NET language binding which makes the engine available to all .NET languages like C#, VisualBasic, and Delphi.NET.
- Platform and driver independent fast software renderer included. It features z-buffer, gouraud shading, alpha-blending and transparency, fast 2D drawing.
- Powerful, customizeable and easy to use 2D GUI System with Buttons, Lists, Edit boxes, ..
- 2D drawing functions like alpha blending, color key based blitting, font drawing and mixing 3D with 2D graphics.
- Clean, easy to understand and well documentated API with lots of examples and tutorials.
- Written in pure C++ and totally object orientated.
- Direct import of common mesh file formats: Maya (.obj), 3DStudio (.3ds), COLLADA (.dae), DeleD (.dmf), Milkshape (.ms3d), Quake 3 levels (.bsp), Quake2 models (.md2), Microsoft DirectX (.X)... [more]
- Direct import of Textures: Windows Bitmap (.bmp), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg), Truevision Targa (.tga), ZSoft Painbrush (.pcx)... [more]
- Fast and easy collision detection and response.
- Optimized fast 3D math and container template libraries.
- Directly reading from (compressed) archives. (.zip)
- Integrated fast XML parser.
- Unicode support for easy localisation.
- Works with Microsofts VisualStudio6.0?, VisualStudio.NET 7.0-8.0?, Metrowerks Codewarrior, and Bloodshed Dev-C++ with g++3.2-4.0.
- The engine is open source and totally free. You can debug it, fix bugs and even change things you do not like. And you do not have to publish your changes: The engine is licensed under the zlib licence, not the GPL or the LGPL.

Pantheios is an Open Source C/C++ Logging API library, offering an optimal combination of 100% type-safety, efficiency, genericity and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly-portable (platform and compiler-independent) and, best of all, it upholds the C tradition of you only pay for what you use.
The project supports logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types.
Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level including (but not limited to) the eight levels defined by the SysLog protocol.
Pantheios supports back-end output, individually and in combination, to stderr/stdout, SysLog (including a custom implementation of the SysLog protocol for Windows), Win32 debugger, Win32 event log, COM Error Object, or any custom back-end extension you care to write. Importantly, Pantheios is readily extended to use the existing transport mechanisms of feature-rich logging libraries such as ACE, log4cpp, log4cplus, log4cxx.
Pantheios does not contain any compiler-specific or platform-specific constructs. It supports UNIX (including Linux and Mac OS-X), and Windows, and should work with any operating system. It is known to be compatible with Borland (5.5.1+), Comeau (4.3.3+), Digital Mars (8.45+), GCC (3.2+), Intel (6+), Metrowerks (8+), Microsoft Visual C++ (5.0+), and should work with any reasonably modern C++ compiler.
Pantheios is completely free and includes source released under a BSD-style licence.
Pantheios was forked from a previous logging architecture, proprietary to Synesis Software, in 2005, and has been used in a number of commercial projects since that time. In one project it serves a middleware suite that handles 10s of millions of financial transactions per week, wherein it has an unmeasurably low impact on performance when logging (of a given severity level) is switched off. (Its also decidedly quick with logging switched on, of course ...).
Enhancements:
- A bug in the Pantheios Tracing API was fixed.
- An example for the Pantheios Tracing API was added.
- A variadic macro warning in GCC 3.x makefiles was suppressed.