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Submission + - Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) is released. (phoronix.com)

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SD-Arcadia

on Saturday September 26, 2009 @06:02AM

SD-Arcadia writes: "Theora, the open and royalty-free format that comes from the same folks that work on the Ogg Vorbis audio formmat, has officially reached version 1.1. Theora 1.1 (codenamed "Thusnelda") is much-improved over version 1.0, which was reached last November. (Phoronix)"

Submission + - Creative X-Fi Driver Now Under GPL (phoronix.com)

Submitted by SD-Arcadia on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:03PM

SD-Arcadia writes: Creative's X-Fi on Linux has been far from a pleasant experience, but today that may begin to change. As a move that could be interpreted as either Creative Labs throwing in the towel or them simply acknowledging they want to play with the Linux and open-source communities nicely, they have announced the release of the source-code to their binary driver. This driver is a little less than 13,000 lines and all of it has been put under the GNU GPLv2 license.

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