This month we’ll show you some popular Linux tools for Internet telephony

An old computer is all you need to build your own do-it-yourself personal phone server.

When you want to call your friends in distant countries, don’t pick up the phone; just put on your headset and fire up Linphone.

Internet telephony does not need to be complicated. You can talk to the world with just Kphone, a normal sound card, and an account with an Internet phone provider.

The free but proprietary Skype is a popular calling option.

Some say an attack is looming, and others say we don’t have to worry. What’s the real story on viruses in Linux?

So you want a virus checker? We’ll show you what we found when we toured some of the top scanners for the Linux environment.

Linux may not be as virus-ready as Windows, but who wants to harbor pointless malware? Now you can hunt for viruses with KDE's KlamAV, a desktop front-end for the ClamAV Open Source virus protection system.

Sometimes the best time to stop bad mail is before it arrives. AmavisdNew is an Open Source interface for integrating spam and virus filtering with your mail server.

The Linux environment includes some powerful tools for editing, managing, and scanning digital images.

The imgSeek image viewer offers a unique alternative to the non-intuitive norm of searching by filename: you can find an photo based on motif.

Xnview is a handy image viewing and editing tool that is free for private use. We’ll show you around some of the program’s best features.

The Sane interface provides access to image processing devices such as scanners. You can manage your Sane-supported scanner from Linux with the handy XSane front-end.

You can rename and modify JPEG files without touching the graphics by manipulating settings in the file header.

Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper shares some tips for using Knoppix in the real world.

Klaus Knopper still has big ideas for the little distro that has spawned many derivatives and changed the way we think of live Linux. I asked Klaus about the past, present, and future of Knoppix.

The task of setting up a Web page keeps getting easier. If you’re a Linux user, you can choose from a variety of Linux-friendly HTML editing tools. But once you craft the headlines, format the more...

sucLooking to build an online store for yourself or for a client? If you’re thinking about cobbling together a customized solution with a database and a home-built shopping cart, don’t bother; look no further than osCommerce.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) help you polish up your websites without taking a crash course in programming.

Good homepage design is a question of the layout. Sometimes the best option is to use a graphics program to design the page, then translate the result into HTML code. The versatile image manipulation program GIMP can help.

Flash is today’s tool of choice for animated, interactive web content. But Flash and Linux are worlds colliding. We'll show you the current crop of Open Source Flash authoring solutions.