Heroine Virtual is a company that creates open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 software for the Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

. Their most popular release is Cinelerra

Cinelerra

Cinelerra is prosumer video editing software. It is designed for the GNU/Linux operating system. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License...

, a powerful open source non-linear video editor, considered the best available for Linux. The company remains completely anonymous, their reasoning for this is to keep the division between personal and professional products. It is unknown how many people work for Heroine Virtual.

External links

• Heroine Virtual official website
• About Heroine Virtual
• Heroine Virtual Freshmeat.net profile
• Heroine Virtual SourceForge.net profile (no longer updated, as stated by the company itself)