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Over 50 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources

On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 50 useful open source resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.


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Linux is booming, but unpaid adoption may hurt vendors. IDC is projecting Linux revenue to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9 percent from 2008 to 2013, but nonpaid usage abounds.

WineXS: a simple graphical environment to configure Wine. Wine is a well-liked compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, and here is an easy way to get going with it.

SpringSource enables Java cloud apps. Cloud Foundry is an enterprise Java cloud where developers can sign in and deploy Spring, Grails, or other Java apps within a public cloud.

Report: OpenOffice doesn't infringe like MS Word. After the permanent injunction barring Microsoft from selling Word, many wondered if it would affect OpenOffice, and here are the details.

Larry Augustin: Open source fueling enterprise software shift. Over time you will see Microsoft adopt more open source principles as they strive to continue to make Windows relevant, he says.



Over 45 Free, Essential Open Source Resources

On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 45 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.


5 Free Online Open Source Books for Beginners

Lack of adequate documentation is frequently cited as a shortcoming of open source applications and platforms, but, for the popular choices, there are surprisingly good, free online books available. We round these up on a regular basis here at OStatic, and in this post you'll find five online books that you can jump right into. They introduce basic concepts for getting started with Linux, Firefox, Blender (3D graphics and animation), GIMP (graphics), and the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications.


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Why aren't schools adopting open source? Outside the U.S. schools are doing so, but not inside.

Top 25 OpenOffice extensions. Here are many good ways to get more out of the open source app suite.

Eyeing Google, Splashtop partners with Yahoo for instant-on web search. It's a pre-emptive strike against Chrome OS.

Open source advocates still called zealots. That's the moniker that a New York Times blog post chooses.

Installing VirtualBox 3.0 on a Fedora 11 desktop. Here's a tutorial that will allow you to run multiple operating systems concurrently.



Over 20 Free Tutorials for Top Open Source Apps and Linux

Open source applications and platforms take regular criticism for not having the same level of documentation as proprietary ones, but for many top open source projects, there are lots of free resources. In some cases these are delivered by the community behind particular projects, and sometimes they are from enthusiasts and other third parties. In this post, you'll find an updated collection of our last tutorials roundup, with over 20 good resources for popular open source applications and Linux. A little time spent working with these resources can pay many dividends.


Tiny SoftMaker's Office Suite Beats OpenOffice in Reviews. What Gives?

Andy Updegrove has an interesting post up in which he analyzes a product comparison from InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy. The upshot of Kennedy's comparison of office productivity application suites is that he finds the commercially developed, non-open source SoftMaker suite of productivity applications to be the best suite for sharing and competing with Microsoft Office. He also fires off some notable criticisms of the open source OpenOffice suite. The funny thing is, SoftMaker is a small, commercial provider without an open source arm.


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Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears. Stories can be buried on sites such as Digg by abusive users with an axe to grind.

Will Novell, Dell turn to open-source M&A to grow? Novell has expressed interest in acquisitions, and Dell may have its eyes on the open source storage market.

Is the world now an open source society? Do open source and the Internet values on which it is based have a political dimension?

Getting the most out of OpenOffice.org Writer. It is, without a doubt, the most frequently used application in the OpenOffice.org suite.



Over 40 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources

Occasionally, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational resources are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 40 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.


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Kludgets lets you run OS X widgets on your Windows desktop. It's an open source project built on Webkit and Nokia's QT framework.

OpenOffice 3.1: The new features. Instant eye catchers are improved anti-aliasing for graphics, better chart functionality, and the new text highlighting in Writer.

12 of the best free Linux news aggregators. Tools for KDE, GNOME and more.

Education lessons for open source. If the school is running open source, that's what the students will learn.

Auto-update to the latest builds of Firefox Minefield. Daily builds have the latest bug-fixes, enhancements and test options for this speedy version of the browser.



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