"A new IETF working group has been formed in the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area [...] The goal of this working group is to ensure the existence of a single high-quality audio codec that is optimized for use over the Internet and that can be widely implemented and easily distributed among application developers, service operators, and end users. At present it appears

User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation, the user created may be added to the Administrators group.

Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage U.S. federal government support of, and participation in, open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad-reaching goal, it is. Nearly three months after the group's debut, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made toward this goal.

Different GNU/Linux distributions provide incompatible systems for package management, and to date no one has quite figured out a foolproof way to get the best of them all.

"Network services are one of the fastest growing areas in modern software. However, while network services have much of the convenience of free software, only a minority are available under a free license. In fact, it was only last November that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the GNU Affero General Public License for network services.

I think that everybody knows what Microsoft's goal is. It is the same answer that Brain gives to Pinky every night. I think that everybody knows what Apple's goal is, if you don't have an isomething then you are just not cool. That company makes it hip to be square (who is the artist of that song?). But how many people know what Linux's goal is?

If user and group management has you in a quandary, it's time to take the advanced filesystem security class at the ACLU.

Greetings Linux fans from around the world. We are here again to witness the clash of two ultra-lightweight distributions. As you may know, these two distros have collided in the past and have fought until the end. One ended up victorious, while the other one was not as fortunate. So today, we shall give the losing distro a chance to even the score.

A few Linux distributions emphasize license freedom as a goal, but Tom “Spot” Callaway says that there’s no such thing as a free Linux distro.