Linux Journal Contents #141, January 2006

Features

• Creating a Home PBX Using Asterisk and Digium  by James Turner
  There's a call for mom on extension 9 now being routed to voice mail, all thanks to Linux, Asterisk and Digium.
  
• Linux Video Production: the State of the Art  by Dan Sawyer
  There is a surprising plethora of Linux tools available for manipulating images, creating and editing videos. What are they and how do they stack up?
  
• Build a Home Terabyte Backup System Using Linux  by Duncan Napier
  A terabyte backup system for 80 cents per gigabyte? Hardware has gotten cheap enough to make it worthwhile to create a terabyte backup system for your home videos, music and other data.
  
• Creating DVDs with Kino and DVDStyler  by Philip W. Raymond
  Want to turn those home movies into world-class DVDs? Here's how to edit them in Kino and use DVDStyler to create the final masterpiece.
  
• Wireless Home Music Broadcasting—Modifying the NSLU2 to Unleash Your Music!  by John MacMichael
  Don't trip over wires in your home just to listen to your MP3s. Attach a Roku Labs SoundBridge to a Network Attached Storage device to broadcast the music to your stereo.
  
• Build a Linux-Based Skype Server for Your Home Phone System  by Andrew Sheppard
  Want to extend your Skype voice-over-IP phone service to the telephones in your house? Here's how.
  

Indepth

• Circuit Design on Your Linux Box Using gEDA  by Stuart Brorson
  Use Linux to create a circuit board design. Send files to a fabrication house and, voil� what you get back is a professional quality circuit board of your very own design.
  
• gevas: the GTK+2 to evas Bridge  by Ben Martin
  Enlightenment is still alive and kicking keister in graphics performance. Here's how to use the Enlightenment rendering engine with GTK2.
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Testing with Rails  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Easy I/O with IO Channels  by Robert Love
  
• Cooking with Linux   Is Your $HOME a Money, er, Messy Pit?  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Work the Shell   Exploring Pipes, Test and Flow Control  by Dave Taylor
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Single Sign-On and the Corporate Directory, Part II  by Ti Leggett
  

Columns

• Linux for Suits   Making IT Work  by Doc Searls
  
• Get Your Game On   Running Windows Games in Linux  by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
  
• EOF   Bringing Usability to Open Source  by Nat Friedman
  

Departments

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• Letters  
  
• New Products