Advanced Audio Coding, an audio coding format, made its debut as a part of MPEG-2, and was revised and included in the MPEG-4 specification. AAC is probably the most advanced audio encoding system in the world. Freeware Advanced Audio Coder is an opensource GPL'd suite of tools which allow a person to use the AAC format.

Procmail, and the cluster of utilities associated with it, can take one or more actions on individual email messages based on the content of the headers or the body, or the size of the message. Once a specified condition is met, Procmail can file the email in a local mailbox (which could be /dev/null, effectively

deleting it), forward it to another address, or pipe it as input to another command.

Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management. They allow all the users of a same machine to mount different file systems automatically the very moment they are needed.

How does Linux initialize during boot? Many people don't consider the actual process that Linux takes to enter a usable state. This article explains what the various run levels are for and how they fit into the boot process.

The kernel has special needs for testing that require it to be done by a wide variety of people for several reasons including the highly configurable source code, which means that it needs to be tried out with lots of different options to try to find combinations that stimulate bugs, and also the fact that it supports a number of different instruction set architectures and few other reasons.

"One of the reasons that Debian is such a cool and intuitive distribution is because of it's packaging system (*.deb). The installation uses a program called apt to download and install programs from cds, nfs, ftp, or http. Because of this, you can install an entirely current system from an old installation cd."

Running both Linux and Windows on the same computer is any easy way to have the

best of both operating system worlds. Perhaps the easiest and safest way to do that is to use PowerQuest's Boot Magic and Partition Magic products for boot and

partition management.

This first part of this two-part series about Linux on the Mac will show you how Mac users can benefit from Linux and what they should expect from Linux on a PowerPC.

This article covers ssh's background and architecture, how to build and/or install OpenSSH, how to use ssh as an encrypted replacement for Telnet, how to set some basic ssh configuration options and how to use scp for encrypted file transfers.

"This mini-HOWTO will help those of you with Red Hat 6.2 and the Voodoo 3 video card. It also sets a standard so that we can share our FPS results."