VP8 Codec: FSF Encourages Free Video Standard
Feb 22, 2010In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation suggested that the software giant freely release the VP8 HD video compression format after having acquired the On2 video technology firm.
more »Gitg 0.0.6 Supports Cherry-Picking
Feb 22, 2010Gitg, a GUI program that works with git repositories, is available for download in version 0.0.6.
more »Glsof-Queries Check Open Files
Feb 19, 2010Glsof-Queries is a GUI for the lsof (list open files) UNIX command with many query options. After a complete rework the open source tool is now available in version 1.0.0.
more »Twitter and Co. to Protect Ubuntu Users with Update Alerts
Feb 19, 2010A new alert system should warn Ubuntu users via micro-blogging about potentially harmful updates.
more »BSD Router Project: New Kern, New Protocols
Feb 19, 2010The BSD Router Project (BSDRP) has released version 0.32 of its free embedded router distribution.
more »Ssscrape 1.0 Collects Dynamic Web Data
Feb 18, 2010The Ssscrape tool screen-scrapes data from RSS and Atom feeds, blogs and podcasts. The open source software is now available in version 1.0.
more »Qt 4.6.2 stable for Maemo 5 with first Mobile APIs
Feb 18, 2010The 4.6 release from Qt comes with a Symbian installer, Qt APIs for mobile devices and the promised Maemo 5 port.
more »NagAconda: Python Instead of Perl for Nagios Plugins
Feb 18, 2010The NagAconda Python tool helps when writing plugins for the Nagios monitoring tool and is available in its first open release.
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