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Free Open Source Software News 1
FossNews Weekly
Issue : 27Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 27-08-2009Subscribe athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/
Contents
1. OpenShot - a new Linux Video Editor2. 10 reasons to use open source in business3. Howto Deploy SIP Witch On Ubuntu4. Linux In the Movies-- Thumbs Up!5. Durian is Coming: Blender's Third Open Movie Project6. Linux Laptops for Kerala MLAs7. What’s New in Ubuntu 9.108. Ubuntu Developer Week 9. 16 Years of Debian10. The new Nokia N900 with Linux Inside
1. OpenShot - a new Linux Video Editor
If you want to edit your own videos & you are running Linux on your desktop, you must have a look at OpenShot - a non-linear video editor. A Developer Preview is available now, version 0.9.22.
OpenShot features:
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Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
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Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
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Multiple tracks
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Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
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Video transitions with real-time previews
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Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
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Title templates, title creation
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Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
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Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
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Drag and drop timeline
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Frame stepping, key-mappings: J,K, and L keys
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Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)You can download OpenShot 0.9.22 here (Ubuntu .deb packages).
If you are running a other Linux distro then Ubuntu there's also a build wizard available, whichdownloads the latest source code and compiles all of the dependencies.
Free Open Source Software News 2http://www.itrunsonlinux.com/news/86-openshot-a-new-linux-video-editor
2. 10 reasons to use open source in business
It is often said that open source software wins because it is cheaper.However, the bigger factor in the success of open source softwarein industry has been performance.
Collaborative development projects have opened the door to much wider input than is the case in aclosed development environment with subsequent improvements in price and performance. Opensource reduces R&D costs, increases productivity, improves efficiency, facilitates interoperabilityandencourages innovation.
Free Open Source Software News 3Here's our top ten reasons to consider using open source and Linux in your business. 1. Initial outlay2. Support3. Quality4. TCO5. Security6. No more upgrades7. End single vendor dependence8. Interoperability and open standards9. Access to technology at the source10. Freedomhttp://www.itpro.co.uk/614233/10-reasons-to-use-open-source-in-business
GNU SIP Witch is intended to make it both possible and easy forindividuals, private organizations, and even national governments tocreate and deploy network scalable secure VoIP calling networks usingthe public Internet and free software. GNU SIP Witch is a standard'scompliant peer to peer SIP call server that can be used to deploy ZRTPenabled secure VoIP clients such as the Twinkle Softphone and SIPCommunicator, as well as support conventional SIP softphones. Thisarticle explains how to quickly initially setup and deploy GNU SIPWitch using Ubuntu GNU/Linux.http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/38070-howto-deploy-sip-witch-clients-and-servers
4. Linux In the Movies-- Thumbs Up!
Well, not the movies exactly, but on YouTube. YouTube videos are tiny and blurry, and sometimesso herky-jerky they cause motion sickness. But where else can youfind thousands of Linux videos on every subject imaginable? Hereis a collection of short videos starring Linux: from IBM, Novell,and random creative people doing random creative acts like takingTux skydiving, running 165 Linux applications at once, and making movies with Blender. Enjoy!Imagine a place where everything is possible Skydiving Tux (but he didn't get his own parachute!) Evolution WARNING
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