• March 25

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  lwn.net

  Boudhayan Bhattcharya has posted a lengthy article about the announcement that the Freedesktop project is dropping...

  Boudhayan Bhattcharya has posted a lengthy article about the announcement that the Freedesktop project is dropping OpenH264 from the Freedesktop SDK for Flatpak applications and runtimes. Some Flatpak applications that depend on the Freedesktop runtime version 23.08 will lose H.264 playback support starting with the release scheduled for April, unless application developers replace it with the ffmpeg-full extension. The 24.08 runtime is unaffected, and...

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• March 25

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  microsoft.com

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• January 24

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  metafilter.com

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