Firefox 3 Beta 5 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.

Edinburgh, UK – The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference, EnterpriseDB announced the introduction of Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Postgres Plus is an open source distribution of the PostgreSQL database and includes significant performance benefits and important ease-of-use capabilities for developers and DBAs.  Bundled into a one-click, cross-platform installer, Postgres Plus is targeted at developers of next-generation applications and sets a new standard for commercial distributions of open source databases.

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – Independent game developer S2 Games has released its highly anticipated Linux client for Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. Linux gamers can download the client and sign-up for a free account.

Traffic Squeezer is a free Open-Source Linux WAN Network Traffic Accelerator.  Traffic Squeezer is free software, developed and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The software has been made free(open-source) so that it gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it, and share it with others.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – At EclipseCon, (NYSE:AMD) AMD announced a new plug-in that provides the Eclipse community with increased performance management and monitoring of Java software code. Called “CodeSleuth,” this new plug-in delivers the functionality of AMD’s CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer, a powerful suite of tools that analyze software performance on AMD processors, including Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. To help ensure that the plug-in is readily available to the Java technology community and evolves with the community’s needs, AMD is making CodeSleuth open source and available as a no-charge download within the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Eclipse Foundation has announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony on the opening day of EclipseCon 2008.

BRISTOL, England – ClearSpeed Technology has announced the launch of its Release 3.0 software. The new release introduces multiple feature and performance enhancements. This release represents the most significant development yet in the company’s strategy of continually increasing the ease-of-use of its programming environment for developers; specifically those seeking the benefits of ClearSpeed’s breakthrough performance for real-world applications in the embedded and High Performance Computing (HPC) markets.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, has said that it has begun operations.

The phpBB team is very happy to announce the release of phpBB 2.0.23, the "still furry as hell" edition. This release addresses several bug fixes and some security issues.