Red Hat Thursday said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform would be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware software lineup.

"getfirebug.com now has the latest firebug 1.1 beta, b11. This release adds contributed localizations for Turkish and Bulgarian. Otherwise the main news here is that getfirebug.com will now be providing regular updates and, soon, access to early releases of firebug 1.2 and chromebug." -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Retired Air Force pilot John Wojnaroski can’t seem to get away from flying and he’s been constructing the “ultimate” flight simulator with authentic screens, switches and even throttle controls. Using scavenged passenger jet parts and the “FlightGear” open source simulator platform, Wojnaroski’s simulator can emulate most jumbo jets and can even perform instrument approaches along with around the world flights.

"I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.33 of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findutils is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ ..."

"Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 3 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only. Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. This is the eleventh developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso. New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include..." -- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b3/linux-i686/

The Strigi project is the core of the index and search technology for KDE 4. Strigi is designed to be small and fast, and it can be installed and used with or without KDE 4, as we'll see.

"Parted Magic 2.0 is finally released! See the changelog for most of the small details. I'll talk about the cool stuff most people will care about here. GParted has been forked to VisParted to add features GParted doesn't have. VisParted can read and write volume labels for most supported file systems. Point and click disk wiping was added..."

You can find both design ideas and complete themes on the Web. You need to decide whether you want to work with an existing theme, or convert a design into a theme, or whether you want to start from scratch, unburdened by any preliminary constraints or alien code.