As Google rolls out GFS2 - a major update to the custom-built file system underpinning its online infrastructure--the company's former infrastructure don sees no reason why the open source world can't follow suit.

With a major update of its own slated in another couple of months, the cross-platform OpenOffice.org office suite has also spurred a spate of intriguing offshoots, ranging from a thumbnail USB edition to the Go-oo variant and beyond.

Some Web authoring programs are very easy to use, like OpenOffice.org, but produce horrendously complicated HTML files.  Other applications are geared toward twiddling every single tag, like Bluefish. Kompozer strikes a good balance with a nice user interface, clean tagging, and built-in publishing features.