Links 31/12/2013: Applications
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-12-31 16:01:07 UTC
- Modified: 2013-12-31 16:01:07 UTC
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In December of last year Phoronix was first to cover Project Darling, an open-source project that allows running Apple Mac OS X binaries on Linux-based systems. Sadly, the Darling Project appears to now be a memory of the past.
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The VideoLAN project has announced the release of libbluray 0.5.0, the latest version of the open-source Blu-ray library. This latest release has better BD-J Java support and other new/improved features.
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