Which video player/codec pack do you recommend? I just grabbed VLC and Mplayer, and VLC worked better, while Mplayer crashed on some divX. How does one relate windoze codec packs to codecs in Linux?

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

LinuxBSDos has a review of Fedora 19 Schrodinger’s Cat. Fedora has never been one of my favorite desktop distros since it seems to tend more toward enterprise level usage. That’s not to say that there ...

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...