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.
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Apr 26, 2010Linux Client Pulled from Valve Server
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Apr 22, 2010Newly discovered Linux code keeps the dream alive.
more »Firefox Beta Survives Plugin Crashes
Apr 21, 2010Firefox developers have relegated plugins to their own processes to prevent browser crashes. The version 3.6.4 beta encourages testing the new feature.
more »Synaptics Gesture Suite comes to popular Linux distros
Apr 20, 2010At long last, simple keystrokes and mouse clicks can be replaced with pinching and swiping.
more »Read Later Mozilla Add-on
Apr 20, 2010Matt Brubeck, newcomer to the Mozilla Fennec Fox team, has released his Read Later extension for mobile browsers that provides offline webpage reading.
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.
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