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Handbrake 0.9.3 released: Linux GUI available (Ubuntu 8.10 .deb packages included)

“HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.”

This is a must have tool for anyone who needs to convert video for playback on specific devices, for online publishing or backup purposes. Thanks to its multi-threaded nature, it works efficiently with modern multi-core CPUs. The new release is notable for Linux users, as earlier versions lacked a graphical user interface for this platform.

Japanese embedded Lineo Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

“Warp 2 comprises a bootloader, Linux kernel, and a “hibernation driver” [...] The driver takes a snapshot of RAM when hibernation is launched, saving the contents into flash memory, optionally compressing the data. On start-up, the contents are quickly returned to RAM, so that the system resumes its previous running state.”

[via:IDG.se]

Nmap 4.75 includes visual network topology mapper

This is something I’ve wanted for a long time: the world’s most famous networking/security software utility can now draw pretty pictures.

Free Culture Showcase to be included on Ubuntu disc images

“For the next release of Ubuntu we want to [...] show off some free culture artists by putting their media on millions of Ubuntu systems around the world. [...] The deadline for submissions is 4th September 2008.”

[via:mummila]

FireGPG - easy GNU Privacy Guard for Firefox (including Gmail)

“FireGPG is a Firefox extension [...] which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG. FireGPG adds some features to the Gmail interface, to let you use GPG’s features directly in your webmail. More webmails will probably be supported in the future.”

Browser based art generator

Thanks to Aza Raskin, you can now generate one-click art using a simple, open source javascript tool in your browser. Demo video included.

Here’s an example of what can be done with this.

[via:waxy, ejohn]

Indiska skoldatorer måste hålla att stå på

“När den Indiska regionen Tamil Nadu utvärderar bärbara datorer som ska distribueras ut till 100 000 studenter är metoderna minst sagt udda. … Kraven på hårdvaran är att den ska fungera fläckfritt med någon av Linuxdistributionerna OpenSUSE eller Ubuntu samt klara av trycket från en 92-kilos Indier som kliver på den.”