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Is Microsoft about to declare patent war on Linux? A published item from one of the company's attorneys could be a sign that the answer is yes.

Firefox 3.0 reaching end of the line. A bit later than expected, Mozilla is calling it quits for version 3.0 of its browser.

Mozilla ditches support for aged SeaMonkey 1.0. It will focus on support for version 2.0 of its app suite.

If the desktop is dying, mobile sync is king. Syncing no longer applies to only one desktop and one mobile device for most users.



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Firefox 3.7 dumped in favor of feature updates. Mozilla has dumped Firefox 3.7 from the release schedule, replacing it with regular features updates for version 3.6 of the browser.

Why Linux on the desktop is wrong. Perhaps this is a poor choice of focus if we really care about Linux success.

Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 benchmarks with early Fedora 13 numbers. Check out the speed trials.

Norwegian broadcasting moves to OpenOffice and ODF. Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on going open.



Release Early, Release Often, Adopt Slowly

Things move pretty fast in the open source development world. A new kernel release comes out around every three months. Projects like GNOME, KDE, and PostgreSQL pop out releases every six months, as well as some major Linux distros. Open source development moves at a rapid and relentless pace. It's refreshing, then, to see an open source developer reminding people to have a little patience.

Peter Eisentraut, a software engineer at F-Secure who also works on PostgreSQL and is a Debian Developer, has some good advice for people concerned about the adoption rate of Python 3. Did you follow all that? Because the connections are important: Adoption of Python 3 is directly related to its connections to other projects like PostgreSQL and Debian. Eisentraut explains:



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.


6 Easy Ways to Secure Your Hotspot Sessions

Are you increasingly using public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are, you're in good company, as many more people use public Wi-Fi for work and play. Airports, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, conference centers and many more types of locations are Wi-Fi enabled. Many hotspot hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, you'll find six tips and applications--including both open source and freeware offerings--that you can use to lock down your sessions.


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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Alpha, Codenamed Namoroka. It's available for download from the Mozilla FTP website.

How are open source projects surviving the recession? Maybe not so badly, says an anecdotal, unscientific survey of three well-known projects--KDE.org, GNOME.org and SourceForge.net.

OSCON 2009: Governments and open source. The big obstacles to government adoption of open source are similar everywhere, from opaque procurement processes to fears about security.

SCO vs. Linux: an end in sight? Following the bankruptcy court's decision to entrust the continuation of SCO Group's business to a trustee, questions linger.



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.


5min How-To Video Site Abounds With Free, Open Source Lessons

Today, instructional video site 5min has announced that it has secured $7.5 million in Series B venture financing. Led by new investor, Globespan Capital Partners, the round also includes existing investor, Spark Capital. 5min has aggressively pursued syndication deals and partnerships with many media companies, and many people in the open source community may not realize the breadth of how-to videos on open source topics that you can find at the site. It's an excellent resource for open source tutorials that you can start and stop as you see fit.


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Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability self-inflicted. The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.



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