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Rack-Soft announced the availability of the free 4PSA VoipNow Express PBX software with advanced PBX features.

GE Fanuc has introduced two versions of a Gigabit Ethernet card in the AMC (advanced mezzanine card) form-factor. The Telum GE-QLX and GE-QSX deliver up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports and offer fiber optic transceivers, and support Carrier Grade Linux, according to the company. Designed for AdvancedTCA or MicroTCA platforms, such as GE Fanuc's MP-2000 and MP-3000 MicroTCA platforms, the Telum-series AMC boards are said to boost performance via TCP CRC checksum calculations and segmentation offloading.

Welcome to part 2 of our Linux Media Player Roundup. Today we'll be covering a few more Linux Media Players and showing you each of them, and what makes them special.

As more and more traditional publishers accept digital images, artists are turning to free and open source software (FOSS) tools to create cartoons and illustrations.

Struggling to monitor global weather patterns or stars in the galaxy on your home machine? Perhaps the Cray XT5, the world's most scalable Linux-based supercomputer, is what you need? Well, probably not, but its fun to dream.

The BBC has backtracked on claims that it has only hundreds of Linux users accessing its website. Last month, the BBC's director of BBC Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, told a magazine that just 400-600 Linux users visited the BBC sites every week. Now, Highfield claims on his blog that the figure could be as high as 97,600.

The bash shell maintains a history of the commands you entered. You can re-execute a command by recalling it from the history, without having to re-type it. Life is simple if we operate on a single shell session at any given time. If you have 2 simultaneous sessions, you may be surprised that the history does not have the commands you expect.

Best known for enterprise-focused Windows Mobile handsets, HTC's phone using Google's Linux-based platform will extend its consumer portfolio.

I know that this latest Miro release has been pretty odd, being that it does not play well with sun-java6-plugin or sun-java5-plugin for some strange reason.

Nation’s leading provider of recreational wildlife licenses utilizes Levanta’s solution to keep their Linux data centers running smoothly

SSH (Secure SHell) is well known to Linux administrators as the de facto method for connecting to other systems. SSH long ago supplanted other connection methods because it strongly encrypts the connection between the hosts, ensuring that passwords and any transmitted data are safe from prying eyes. On Fedora® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems, and many other Linux distributions, the OpenSSH suite provides the programs for this purpose. An administrator typically runs SSH to login to another system, often to run a shell on the remote host and issue commands. SSH, however, has many extra tricks up its sleeve beyond simply securing a connection.

Part 3 of this series covers how to improve overall file system performance, how to tune your systems with the ioo command, and how to use the filemon and fileplace utilities.

Phoenix says its new firmware product, called Hyperspace, allows PCs to quick-boot into a Linux environment for users to check their email, instant message, browse the web, or even play videos before Windows has got its boots on.

flvorful.com brokers online video ad space and creates commercials for clients to embed in existing content, similar to television advertising. flvorful.com CEO Jake Varghese calls his company "AdSense for videos. It's a way for video publishers to monetize their work." Publishers can create their own commercial content, or hire flvorful.com to create it for them, and then insert it before or in the middle of the videos. Varghese is a big proponent of open source; he says he wouldn't use anything else to build his business.

So giddy was I that the OpenBSD CD agreed to boot on my converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client (with a VIA C3 Samuel processor that wouldn't allow the install of FreeBSD, NetBSD, DesktopBSD or PC-BSD) that I immediately launched into an install today. Whoa. I can't remember an installation process that was this geeky. You MUST have the instructions in front of you, or you will get nowhere fast.

Source Mage GNU/Linux news for the week of Oct. 31st, 2007.

How to Install Ruby on Rails (ROR) in Ubuntu

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exam fees for South Africa have been drastically reduced in a bid to promote local certification.

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which allows you to access and search a directory (another name for a specialized database or data repository that stores typed information about objects), is becoming a common component in Linux environments. If you're looking for a Linux option to search a directory with LDAP, check out Luma.

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