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more »Enhancements to VoIP Software Ekiga 3.0
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more »Free BBC Dirac Codec in Version 1.0
Sep 19, 2008Version 1.0 of the free Dirac video codec is now available.
more »Boxee Available for Linux and Mac
Aug 12, 2008Have you heard about Boxee? Boxee is a social media center based on the SourceForge.net Community Choice Award-winning XBox Media Center (XBMC) open source project.
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
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more »Totem Meet the Totem media player
Jul 31, 2008Totem brings Hollywood to your Linux desktop. We'll show you how to get started with this movie player.
more »recordMyDesktop Creating training videos with recordMyDesktop
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more »Linux Kernel: Improved Webcam Support Thanks to GSPCA
Jul 22, 2008The kernel developers plan to integrate the GSPCA driver with kernel 2.6.27 to add support for a large number of webcams.
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