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8 Resources for Expanding Your Open Source Skillset

Here at OStatic, we regularly round up educational posts and new ideas for users of open source. Collections of open source tools, some compiled by us and some compiled by others, can take you in new directions and make you more productive. Here, below the fold, are 8 useful collections of open source tools and tips to try.


25 Free, Game Changing Open Source Resources

OStatic has recently been enjoying some very healthy traffic and growth, and I'd like to thank all of the members, readers and writers who make our site and this blog lively every day. It's a labor of love. One of our main charters on the OStatic blog is to regularly provide roundups and individual reviews of good open source software, tools and resources. We've done quite a few of these since our last uber-roundup, so here is an updated collection of 25 of our most popular roundups and educational resources for open sourcerors. We hope these help you.

 



Competing With Microsoft Office, With a Dash of Help from Redmond

Here on OStatic, we've made the point many times that open source software often outdoes proprietary competitors. That said, if I see a good piece of freeware, or a fee-based commercial product, I'll still get it if it's best-of-breed. In this post, I'll flesh out a complete suite of software applications that can compete with and work seamlessly with the Microsoft Office suite, where a combination of open source titles, and one single $39.95 application will keep you totally competitive with--and compatible with--the Office suite.


8 Useful Collections of Open Source Apps

Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business applications, operating systems, collaboration tools, and more. Even if you use a lot of open source applications, you'll probably find some new things to try, such as the K-Meleon and Galeon browsers. Here, below the fold, are a few more useful collections of tools and tips to try.


Get Herds of Top OSS Apps in One Free Download--Mac & Windows

If you want to put a boatload of useful open source applications on a computer or, as I do, on a pocket USB drive so that you can have them with you at all times, there are now some very fast ways to do this. MacLibre is a great way to get tons of good free, open source apps in one download for Mac users. For Windows users, as I've written about before PortableApps.com is also a great way to get many free applications in one free download. So what kinds of applications are we talking about?