Musical Talent: Songbird 1.2 has Landed
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more »Palomino: Competition for Flightgear
Jun 18, 2009The GPL flight simulator Palomino from Jim Brooks has, with the integration of OSSIM and the 3D graphic tool OpenSceneGraph, become serious competition for Flightgear.
more »Debian gets Mono Software via Tomboy
Jun 17, 2009Ever since more and more Mono programmed applications such as Banshee, Gnome Do, and F Sport took over the Gnome desktop, the opposition to the .NET implementation has been getting more and more up in arms.
more »Video Editor and VJ Tool: Lives headed for version 1.0.0
Jun 17, 2009The free video editor and VJ tool Lives brings updates and bug fixes on the way to a planned July release of its first stable version 1.0.0.
more »Google Considerations: OGG Theora or H.264?
Jun 16, 2009An employee of Google has expressed himself regarding the disadvantages of OGG Theora in comparison with H.264 in a discussion on the mailing list of the web hypertext application technology working group.
more »Screenshots with Xfce
Jun 15, 2009The Xfce Screenshooter for the Xfce desktop with the current Version 1.6.0 has no cause to fear the competition.
more »Craft Your Own Geeko Avatar
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