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Microsoft open-sources Windows Library for JavaScript
2014-04-03 13:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the library is open source, developers can use it to build and design Windows-like Web applications for other browsers and platforms, including Chrome, Firefox, Android, and iOS.
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Suse open-sources live updater for Linux kernel
2014-03-31 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Nobody loves downtime or reboots -- especially not Suse. But the Linux engineers at Suse didn't just sit there and grind their teeth over forced reboots after a kernel patch; they went out and did something about it.
Valve open-sources its DirectX to OpenGL translation software: Here come the SteamOS and Linux games?
2014-03-11 17:21:21| Extremetech
Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team Fortress, Portal), and easily bring it over to Mac OS X or Linux/SteamOS. The code, with some tweaks, could also be made to work with other DirectX-based game engines as well. By open-sourcing this code, Valve is clearly encouraging developers to release OS X -- and more importantly, SteamOS -- ports of their Windows games.
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Google open-sources Zopfli compression algorithm to speed up Web downloads
2013-03-01 17:44:41| InfoWorld: Top News
Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread recipe, is an implementation of the Deflate compression algorithm that creates a smaller output size compared to previous techniques, wrote Lode Vandevenne, a software engineer with Google's Compression Team, on the Google Open Source Blog on Thursday.
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