From Internetnews.com

"Digium, the prime corporate mover behind Asterisk, is poised to push the popular, open source PBX into the carrier space, thanks to a new partnership with UK-based carrier switch vendor Integrics.

The deal may mark a coup for Digium, Asterisk's commercial sponsors, which could see Integrics deploying its Enswitch product using Asterisk and jointly targeting carrier-class deployments.

As a result, the new move could be the first step (Read More)

Fedora Core 9 has been release this morning with several new feature. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative to pup and pirut, known as PackageKit. This release also includes GNOME 2.22 and/or KDE 4.0.3, and Firefox 3 beta 5. Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively. For more information about the release click the source (Read More)

Amazon MP3 has been around for several months now. And it’s doing pretty good. Decent amount of press coverage when it hit the stage. Decent song selection, all with decent sound quality. And just about everything is decent with the all-DRM-free program Bezos & Co are touting out in the cloud.

And now the company’s gone and done another decent thing with is music download service: it has opened its doors to Linux users.

Indeed, the Amazon MP3 Downloader software bridge with whi (Read More)

Company officials say the move is the latest step in expanding the reach of Adobe's technology.

SAN FRANCISCO—Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime.

Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer at Adobe, said the company is working on a Linux version of AIR, a run-time that lets developers use proven Web technologies to build RIAs (rich Internet applications) that deploy to the d (Read More)

From Linux.com

"Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs. One promising answer may be Restore, an application for enterprise and data center backup for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux systems. It is GPLv2-licensed and freely available to download as a set of Debian/Ubuntu packages, virtual machine, or 455MB installable live CD.

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Could Google Superpower be the best friend of Linux?

"Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software package, which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows applications run in a Linux environment.

Woot: Photoshop CS2 running on WINE, thanks to Google"Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are const (Read More)

M-Audio has supplied hardware and software to computer-based musicians for 20 years. Its new "make-music-now" line of products, aimed at musicians just getting into computers or PC users with an interest in music, includes a microphone, speakers, drum machine, and DJ mixer deck. Unfortunately, its bundled software, called Session, is for Windows only. Our challenge was to try out this hardware -- specifically the KeyStudio MIDI keyboard and Fast Track audio interface -- with Linux applications. (Read More)

Strange title huh? Seem a little absurb?

Well what if I told you for that price you got a wireless N router, that you could plug a printer into and share? Still not enough? How about a 1TB drive included that you can access from Linux, OS X, and Windows? Ya I thought that one would get you.

That right the good folks over at Apple are releasing a new router called the "Time Capsule". While it is designed to be used in conjunction with OS X 10.5 and Time Machine for backups, (Read More)

From ZDNET

"The folks at OpenOffice.org announced that version 3.0 is not going to be delayed and is scheduled for completion in September – as planned.

The open source Office suite marketing blog on Monday denied — and blasted reports out of Germany — that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is going to be delayed from the summer of 2008 to the fall of 2008.

That sounds right. In September of 2007, Openoffice.org marketing chief John McCreesh told this ZDNet blogger t (Read More)

Want to record your music but cant afford studio time? Check out this how to on how to turn your MAC into a recording studio. This same methodology will work with other OS's as long as your hardware is supported.
You Can find the article Here (Read More)

Ever play sim city?

Ever do that one trick with the taxes to make gobs and gobs of free money?

Now someone out there is going to fix that exploit and we'll all have to play the game instead of just tricking the AI.

Sometimes there's a downside to open source. ;P (Read More)

From linux.com click here for the full story.

"Lots of open source tools can help you transfer photos and videos from your cameras to a Linux computer and burn them on to a DVD. But before you mail them to your uncles, aunts, and cousins, wouldn't it be great if you could add a customized case cover to your disks? Koverartist is a KDE application you can use to quickly put together an artistic cover for a CD case.

To install Kov (Read More)

From Linux Today, click on source for full story.

"Setting up a file server doesn`t need to be complicated.

"With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT is reaching small office proportions, and like many small offices, we run into file sharing problems. Peer-to-peer networking is fine when all the machines are on, but inevitably it happens that the file I want is on a PC t (Read More)

From KDE.org

"On Friday, January 18th, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. gave the keynote at the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California about KDE 4, presenting KDE to the world and the world to KDE. The keynote was recorded, and is now available for streaming through Google Video. Continue reading to wat (Read More)

"Following the success of Elephants Dream, the Blender Foundation is developing a follow-on open movie called Peach, set for completion later this year. Computerworld has up an interesting interview with Matt Ebb, lead artist from Elephants Dream (the interview is split over 5 pages). Ebb talks about the making of the world's first open movie and offers some advice to others wanting to start such a project." (Read More)