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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.


Chrome and Firefox Get Upgrades

This week is a big one for open source browsers, which, as we've pointed out many times, are responsible for most of the innovation going on in the browser arena. The first beta version of Firefox 3.6 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you can get it here. Meanwhile, Google has delivered a very fast new beta version of the Chrome browser, and it features bookmark syncing so that you can keep your bookmarks streamlined across multiple computers.


Mozilla Delivers SeaMonkey 2.0

Mozilla is out with version 2.0 of its SeaMonkey hybrid browser and email platform, based on Firefox and Thunderbird. There is a long list of additions to the new version, which you can peruse here. SeaMonkey didn't use the exact same core as the Firefox browser before, but now shares the the core of Firefox 3.5.4. Among other things, that means extensions should work more dependably than they did before. Here are some of the other important improvements.


Report: Mitch Kapor Pronounces Microsoft's Battle With Open Source "Over"

Mitch Kapor--founder of Lotus and designer of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet--is one of the true pioneers of the software industry. People forget how mighty Lotus once was, with a market capitalization that towered over Microsoft's, and over 80 percent market share in spreadsheets. In a discussion with the Guardian U.K., Kapor pronounces Microsoft's war against open source over. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's over, but it's not the war it once was by any means.


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Mozilla previously blocked the Firefox add-ons Microsoft included with .NET, citing security concerns. Now the company is reversing the decision.

Closed Design or No Design? Something is better than nothing.

OpenBSD 4.6 is out. There are many improvements to packet filtering, routing daemons, and the TCP stack.

Has open source hardware come of age? Stanford's Frankencamera is just one example of maturing open source devices.



Fennec, Mozilla's Mobile Browser, is Moving Forward

We've written about Fennec, Mozilla's mobile browser, a number of times. It's now in its fourth public beta, and GigaOm reports today that Mozilla CEO John Lilly wants it to be just as disruptive on mobile devices as Firefox is on the desktop. ?We wanted to build a browser that did everything ? Javascript, CSS, Flash, SVG, video and audio, says Lilly. What that meant was we had to wait for a while for devices to get better to handle this modern browser.? Check out more at GigaOm.


Why Aren't Mozilla and Opera Vocal About Microsoft's EU Settlement Offer?

This week, the European Commission announced its preliminary satisfaction with a settlement offer proposed by Microsoft that would end an antitrust battle that has been simmering for over 10 years. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith posted a response that said: We welcome today?s announcement by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of Microsoft?s proposal relating to web browser choice in Europe. We also welcome the opportunity to take the next step in the process regarding our proposal to promote interoperability with a broad range of our products.?

As Smith alludes to, a big part of the proposed settlement has to do with Microsoft including a browser ballot window in Internet Explorer that lists a broad array of browsers and allows users to choose which one to use. Opponents of that proposal, including Mozilla and Opera, have criticized the fact that the ballot screen is found within Internet Explorer, which is still bundled with Windows, and the fact that any alternative browser must be downloaded, which many users will be too lazy to do. So why are Mozilla and Opera being so reticent in the wake of the European announcement?



Slick Firefox Add-On Does Instant Language Translations of Web Pages

In a two-part series here on OStatic in March, Brian McConnell, who works with language translation sites Worldwide Lexicon and Der Mundo, did a post here, and one here on emerging tools for multilingual web sites and on-the-fly translation of web content from one language to another. As he wrote there: For many publishers and web app developers, from independent bloggers to high volume sites, designing a site to be multilingual is an afterthought, often thought to be extremely difficult. That's unfortunate because the world is a big place, and there's a lot of interesting content out there waiting to be read, if people can find it and understand it.

Sure enough, tools for instant translation of web content from one language to another are works in progress, but they are getting better. Now, Brian has sent me over a quick-to-install Firefox extension that lets me jump to web pages in other languages, and, with a couple of clicks, get good translations of the entire pages. I have to say this is pretty slick. Here's how you can try it.



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First look at stable Firefox 3.5. Mozilla is inviting everyone to download the finalized new version.

An open source GSM network. It was spotted at a Dutch hacker convention, and proves that powerful networks can have grassroots beginnings.

End of days for Sun. Only nine years ago, Sun's stock was at $257 per share, with a market cap of almost $100 billion--but those days are gone.

Impressions of the T-Mobile MyTouch Android phone. The voice recognition for voice searches stands out.

Is Chrome OS too Orwellian or Big Brother-ish? Not only is Google open to almost everything we do on the Internet, but it will also be the only thing sitting between users and hardware with Chrome OS.



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