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Miro 2.0 Launches Today

Posted by kdawson on from the on-the-wall dept.

soDean writes "Miro just launched their 2.0 release today. The free and open source HD video player and Internet TV features an all-new interface and an entirely rewritten UI engine, plus tons of new features and improvements — it's less of a collection of new stuff and more of a rethinking of the whole experience. You can download Miro 2.0 here for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Miro is developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, hell-bent on making Internet video more open and decentralized, along with a dedicated community of users, volunteers, translators, testers, and coders."

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  1. Re:Miro + ??? by oboreruhito · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenCandy was removed from Miro two months ago after user complaints.

    Hi All,

    We're going to remove OpenCandy from our installer next week. Thanks for pushing back on this.

    We still think the core idea of open source projects promoting one another is a great one, and we'll continue to support and promote other FOSS projects whenever possible.

    ~Jesse

    Also from that post:

    OpenCandy is a a software recommendation engine that we added recently in order to suggest other free and open source software to our users. You can find out about the organization at www.opencandy.com.

    I wasn't aware that it permanently left their recommendation engine on the user's machine after running it. We'll look into that right now and fix it as soon as possible.