Google Rolls Out WebM Support in Chrome and on YouTube
Jun 04, 2010If you've signed up for the HTML5 beta on YouTube, you can now try out WebM.
more »Google Reveals the WebM Project
May 19, 2010Project to create high-quality open standard for video on the Web based on Vorbis and VP8.
more »Blu-ray Compliance Comes to x264
Apr 27, 2010The x264 main developer from the VideoLAN open source project has announced that the x264 free H.264 encoder can now also create Blu-ray-quality video.
more »Banshee 1.6 Integrates with Ubuntu One Music Store
Apr 16, 2010Access and purchase music from within the media player.
more »Lightworks Video Editor Goes Open Source
Apr 15, 2010The Lightworks video nonlinear editing program will be released as Lightworks Open Source in the fall of 2010.
more »Meyer Sound Laboratories Becomes Linux Foundation Member
Apr 13, 2010Membership formalizes long-time collaborative relationship between the audio pioneer and open source icon.
more »Google funds OGG Theora
Apr 12, 2010Grant goes toward development of ARM-optimized video codec
more »Apple Granted Design Patent on CoverFlow
Apr 08, 2010Media player programs that bear a "substantially similar" appearance are subject to change
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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OpenDaylight Project Formed
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.
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Gnome 3.8 Released
The new Gnome release includes privacy and sharing settings, allowing more user control over access to personal information.
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Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on New Browser Engine
Mozilla is collaborating with Samsung on a new web browser engine called Servo.