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A Field Report from OSCON

As you?re probably well aware, OSCON is one of the must-attend open source conferences held each year, and last week, the 11th annual OSCON was held in San Jose, California. Although some felt that OSCON didn?t quite make the splash in its new San Jose home that was expected, the decidedly geeky conference put on by tech publisher O?Reilly Media included many sessions and exhibitors of interest. Here are a few notable examples, in a guest column from SourceForge advisory board member Mark R. Hinkle.


PortableApps Delivers Enhanced Beta of its Open Source App Suite

PortableApps has issued a new beta version of its Platform 2.0 release, downloadable here. If you?re unfamiliar with PortableApps, I covered it previously here, and it swept the SoureForge Community Choice Awards for open source software last night, winning four awards, including Best Project, and Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything. It?s a suite of truly excellent, pre-selected, open source applications that you can stick on a USB flash drive. That enables you to have your applications--with your pre-set preferences--available to run on any computer, anytime.

It?s especially popular as a way to store many useful applications on a pocketable drive, but many netbook owners who don't want to run bloated applications use the small-footprint apps in the PortableApps suite. The open source applications that you get are top-notch, and the new upgrade to the suite includes many meaningful enhancements.



Notepad++ Source Code and Text Editor Out in Portable Version

Notepad++ has been a very popular open source code editor and text editor for a long time. Licensed under the GPL and available for Windows, many people use it as a replacement for Windows Notepad, and as an editor to write blog posts in, where it won't introduce the same formatting problems that some word processors do (which can throw off a blog engine). In SourceForge's last Community Choice Awards, it was named Best Tool or Utility for Developers. Now, the folks at PortableApps have announced a handy new portable version of it.?


Firefox 3.5, Portable Edition Arrives

You may already have the new Firefox 3.5 browser, but now, courtesy of the folks at PortableApps, you can get the portable version of Firefox 3.5 as well. It's downloadable here, and, like the other portable versions of popular open source applications that PortableApps offers, it's perfect as a lightweight app that you can keep on a USB thumb drive or other portable device. ?It comes bundled with a PortableApps launcher, so you can launch it directly from a USB thumb drive and have Firefox available with your customizations no matter where you are.