Fedora Linux is a favorite of developers, sys admins, and other tech-savvy users. The new release sports a new Gnome and other useful enhancements.

FFmpeg is good not only for converting and fusing videos together, it can also generate streams on the fly, which you can then use for compositing and effects.

The Guetzli image optimizer by Google developers produces smaller images than JPEG while maintaining the same quality, but it requires a powerful computer with a large working memory.

Ubuntu is back to the first letter of the alphabet – and back to the Gnome desktop. But you'll also find lots of new stuff in the latest release.

If you accidentally delete data or format a disk, good advice can be expensive. Or maybe not: You can undo many data losses with SystemRescueCd.

Linux has some excellent graphical video-editing tools, but sometimes working from the command line with FFmpeg is just better.

Whether you are an expert or a beginner, you can learn to edit audio and video clips at the command line with Melt.

Armed with the Audacity sound editor, you can convert the analog content of LPs, tapes, and cassettes to the digital world.