MythTV Building your own video server
Mar 23, 2009We’ll show you how to build your own Linux-based video server that records, stores, and distributes TV programs.
more »Webvideo Deluxe: Miro 2.0
Mar 12, 2009A new update has vastly improved the stability of version 2.0 of the webvideo player Miro and the project website has counted its first 1.000.000 visitors.
more »From 3.1 to 3.5: Version leap for Firefox?
Mar 09, 2009Mozilla is considering changing the version number of the expected Firefox 3.1 to Firefox 3.5. This, according to developers, will emphasize the sheer volume of work and vast changes already undertaken in version 3.1.
more »Media Centers Exploring alternatives to MythTV
Feb 28, 2009Beyond MythTV and VDR are media centers that take a new approach – or at least make the beaten track look a little different.
more »Cherokee 0.99: Video Streaming and Client Authentication
Feb 27, 2009Project Cherokee has released version 0.99 of its free webserver.
more »Legal Video Downloads: YouTube goes Offline
Feb 17, 2009Until now, watching YouTube videos offline has been an awkward business, possible only with Firefox plugins or similar contraptions. Now, with the help of Creative Commons licenses, this could soon change.
more »FOSDEM: Gnash Developer Deciphers RTMP
Feb 10, 2009Rob Savoye has been engaged in numerous projects, but in his work on Gnash, a free implementation of the Adobe Flash Player, he found a hard nut to crack: how to decipher the protocol details of the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) it uses. He has now presented his solution at the FOSDEM '09 conference in Belgium.
more »AMD/ATI Publishes GPU Documentation
Jan 28, 2009ATI has released the complete 3D register reference guide for Radeon 6XX/7XX chips, greatly simplifying the work of the open source Radeon HD driver project
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.04
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XZ Gets the All-Clear
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Kodi 21.0 Open-Source Entertainment Hub Released
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Linux Usage Increases in Two Key Areas
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Vulnerability Discovered in xz Libraries
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Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
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Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
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