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Real-time mp3 recording

This articles shows how to record music with Linux. Instead of going the 'expensive' WAV-formatway, the much smaller mp3-format is directly recorded. 24 hour recordings in CD-quality become reality when using this format.

BusyBox 0.50 released!

This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the shell is working very well, and the shell's environment variable expansion was fixed. Tons of other improvement have been undertaken.

Linux software debugging with GDB: An introduction

"Most flavours of Linux come with the GNU debugger, or gdb to the shell. Gdb lets you see the internal structure of a program, print out variable values, set breakpoints and single step through source code. It is an extremely powerful tool for fixing problems in program code. In this article I'll try to show how useful gdb is."

A developer's perspective on Transmeta's Midori Linux

Midori uses mostly standard Linux packages. It uses lightly patched versions of the kernel, glibc, and XFree86. The use of busybox, saves space by combining standard Linux utilities into a single executable, thereby saving substantial overhead.

Getting out of MS Access [to MySQL]

"So, you have just finished converting your servers to Linux, and now want to get the corporate MS Access database into a MySQL database. How do you do that? Well, in this short tutorial we show you how".

Is Linux hurting the IT industry?

"The Linux movement has always had an anti-establishment and anti-commercial slant. But Linux is not to blame for the IT slump. Certain parties are starting to reap the fruit of their own stupidity and greed".

NICC releases NIC 2.0; makes net connectivity of device easier

New Internet Computer Company (NICC), has released version 2.0 of the operating system for its NIC: a Linux-based Internet appliance. The enhancements have streamlined the device's usability and improved the ease with which the device can connect to various broad-band and dialup ISP's.

Virus plague causes charity to consider Linux

ActionAid, a poverty relief organisation, which operates in 30 countries, is on the brink of the move after becoming increasing fed up with the effort needed to deal with recent virus outbreaks, and suffering infection from the Emmanuel bug.

IBM's Linux Wristwatch

If we were to ask you, what are the two things that can get most men's adrenaline rushing, you probably will guess the first one right. Yes, it is 'women'.. and the second ?.... Wrong, it is neither booze nor the thought of gambling a night away at a casino. It is 'Mail' in their inbox. Research and statistical reports of men surfing the Internet support this finding. As for us, in addition to the above two factors "learning new technology" gets us all pepped up too.

What Linux really needs to survive

Email: 

"Many reporters have even written that Linux needs a unified and standard user interface in order to survive. This argument makes me see red. The day that Linux gets locked into a standard look and feel user interface is the day I begin finding a new OS. One of the main reasons people use Linux is it gives you a lot of choices."

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