I also do not know who the photographer was, or the model, but is a nice picture, and a beautiful model too.

Enjoy it Tux lovers. :)

Asterisk is a VoIP based PBX, it is great to manage your PBX needs

From Wikipedia:

Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX) originally created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Its name comes from the asterisk symbol, “*”. Asterisk is released under a dual license model, using the GNU General Public License (GPL) as a free software license and a proprietary software license to permit licensees to distribute proprietary, unpublished system components.

The complicated part of this is usually how to send your analog lines to Asterisk, the solution is to use external FXO equipments, that converts normal land lines to IP lines, and then configured that FXO equipment as the Gateway for the Asterisk, so all external call can be routed to that Gateway.

But now a days, are better ways, and one of them is to ask your telephone provider with IP lines, so you only have to make your Asterisk to log as the user, and then use those IP trunks to route external calls through those “VoIP lines”.

I’m planning to do that, and will be posting my experiences.

How to play video over ssh connection in Linux

I’ve already wrote about this twice, the first time in a mplayer tutorial.

Play music and video over ssh

And the second time, while writing ssh tips and tricks.

Stream video over ssh

The command

     ssh user@server “cat /remote-path/movie.mp4” | vlc –

Finally, you may want to check more Linux tips

From Wikipedia

ALT Linux

ALT Linux Team arose from the merger of IPLabs Linux Team and Linux community of the Institute of Logic, Cognitive Science and Development of Personality.[8] The latter cooperated with Mandrake Linux and SUSE teams to improve localization (specifically Cyrillic), producing a Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition (RE).

At some point, Mandrake and Mandrake RE became in fact different distributions and thus the decision was made to create a separate project. The name ALT was coined, which is a recursive acronym meaning “ALT Linux Team”.

The split led to the creation of the Sisyphus package repository, which is an unstable branch of the ALT Linux development.

In 2007, the Sisyphus repository won a prestigious CNews award in nomination for Information Security

From Alt Linux web page:

ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2009 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.

From Wikpedia:

Windows 7 Ultimate

Windows 7 is available in six different editions, but only Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate are widely available at retail.1 The other editions are focused at other markets, such as the developing world or enterprise use. All editions support the 32-bit (IA-32) processor architecture and all editions except Starter support the 64-bit (x86-64) processor architecture (64-bit installation media is not included in Home Basic edition, but can be obtained from Microsoft).

Windows 7 Ultimate contains all of the same features as Windows 7 Enterprise, but unlike the Enterprise edition, it is available to home users on an individual license basis.1 Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional users are able to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for a fee using Windows Anytime Upgrade if they wish to do so.1 Unlike Windows Vista Ultimate, the Windows 7 Ultimate edition does not include the Windows Ultimate Extras feature or any exclusive features as Microsoft had stated.1 However, even though it is the consumer equivalent to Enterprise, Microsoft will only support Ultimate until 2015, as per Home Premium.

Now, I have found an article comparing these two in common day by day tasks, like:

What was tested: Simple everyday operations were used as performance tests:

* Opening of graphic file, map - size 80*80cm, file size 5,2Mb
* Opening of OpenOffice.org document, file size 560Kb, 198 pages
* Music file playback, artist Moby, track in my heart.wma
* Movie file playback. 2 movies were selected for tests 1. Our

Russia: Eggs of Fate (avi), and 2. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (avi). Also note: Eggs has better quality, but file size is almost equal for both movies: 700Mb. Probably, new coding methods are used in Eggs, but I am not sure. But playback went differently for those files.

Comment. All these files were opened from fileserver in the network (working on Samba). Both Linux and Windows worked in their default graphical environments after installation.

You may read the results at: Alt Linux KDE vs Windows Ultimate

Arch Linux is just awesome, is one of my favorite Linux Distributions
Here a nice Review of it from Linux Journal Magazine

Amplify’d from www.linuxjournal.com

You love tinkering with your computer. You've tried Ubuntu and Fedora, and they're good, but you feel something is not quite right. Maybe you don't like all those daemons loading on boot, or maybe you want to build your Linux desktop stack just how you want it

Simplicity

Arch development is guided by simplicity. The Arch wiki states, "Simplicity is absolutely the principal objective behind Arch development."

Rolling Release

Arch uses a rolling release model. This means that the repositories are updated frequently with the latest stable packages from upstream developers. The advantage here is that you don't need to reinstall or do a complex upgrade procedure every six months.

BSD Style init

Say bye-bye to complicated System V runlevels and their associated symlinks. Most distributions use a System V style init, which has a separate directory for each of its eight runlevels. Arch uses a BSD-style init system, which accomplishes much the same with a simple set of scripts. Need to add CUPS to start at boot? Simply add CUPS to the daemons list in /etc/rc.conf. Done. Read more at www.linuxjournal.com

You can find more about Conky and how to install it at:

http://www.go2linux.org/conky-system-monitor-for-linux

Now, if you really want to make it look great, something like this:

You may want to install Conky Launchpad.

Download link and instructions are:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Conky+Launchpad?content=134620

URL:  http://ostatic.com/blog/simplymepis-11-0-on-its-way

The first Alpha version of SymplyMepis 11.0 has been relased.
From Wikipedia
"The most popular MEPIS distribution is SimplyMEPIS, which is based primarily on Debian stable. It can either be installed onto a hard drive or used as a Live CD, which makes it externally bootable for troubleshooting and repairing many operating systems. It includes the KDE desktop environment."

Yes, Windows is in no way better than Linux, but the article below doesn't say that either.
It is just the title, a good way to attract readers, and I think it certainly did.
Some of the statements are true.
I have written some days ago
http://www.go2linux.org/mt/linux-ht/2010/10/are-there-too-many-linux-distributions-1.html

And yes, the way to distribute third party software is an issue.

The hardware support maybe not one anymore, yes the manufactures does not make drivers (modules) for Linux, but the community does a great job supporting new hardware.

One think I have read somewhere is:
Linux may not be for everyone, maybe we should focus on a niche, people like us, who likes to know how things work, people who likes freedom.

Windows users, usually does not understand about computers, as soon as they become computers savvy they prefer to switch to Linux.

Maybe we should let Mark's Ubuntu be the one to fight against Windows, and the rest of distributions continue to be what Linux is.

Amplify’d from linuxcanuck.wordpress.com

Why Windows is Better Than Linux

Most hardware is made to work on one of two platforms, Windows or Macs. Equipment often ships with disks for one or both of these two platforms. Seldom, if ever, do you find a Linux disk. This has nothing to do with Linux not being able to run said equipment, but rather speaks to the size of the market. Linux is small time.

Compatibility

Community Issues

Other OSes do not have the same community issues. They can be seen as a strength or a weakness. We are a fragmented community. What distribution should companies support? What package format should they release their software in? What happens when you upgrade your Linux distribution? Does the software need to be upgraded, too? Surely, that means more work for developers.

We are also a fractious lot. Whenever someone takes the bull by the horns and tries to deal realistically with any of these concerns as Mark Shuttleworth has done at times, then he is accused of trying to speak for the Linux community at large and having ulterior motives ascribed to him. He is after all, trying to push his own agenda, so his detractors say. But, isn’t it in every Linux user’s best interest to deal with these issues? Why should he or anyone else step forward if he is going to be subjected to scorn and abuse?

Final thought. Technologically there is no reason why Linux cannot do all the things that Windows or Mac OD does. Things are the way they are for many reasons. Linux in itself is not the limiting factor. Read more at linuxcanuck.wordpress.com

URL:  http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/the-end-of-the-road-...

Bye bye Linux Kernel 2.4, you really did a great job these years, but everything has an end, and yours is approaching.