Linux.com has an on USB Audio. It discusses the pros and cons of USB Audio and setting it up under Linux.

Last winter there were several requests to setup a screenshot galley so users could submit screenshots of Linux running on their Macs. I created a initial gallery, but things started to get put on hold.

Now it's up, and you can see it here. Obviously this page is work in progress. That page includes instructions on how to submit your own screenshots (so you won't have to just look at mine ;).

Additional sections of iMacLinux will be showing up in the next few weeks, so visit frequently to see the additons.

You can have a look inside the Nintendo Game Cube . The Nintendo game cube has an 485MHz IBM PowerPC processor, pretty clear from . Interesting, wonder if anyone will get Linux running on it :)

Anandtech has a complete of the iPod. It's pretty detailed, you'll even see the iPod's inside. They also finally ask the question of how to connect it to something else than MacOS. More info about using the iPod with Linux can be found .

Loki Software, known for porting some popular games to Linux, including Linux on PPC, appearently will stop their business on January 31. An email informing resellers has been sent out and a copy can be found .

Pencam cameras include a lot of small sized cameras which can be both used as a digital snapshot type camera and as a webcam. They are all based on the STV680 chipset by STMicroelectronics.

You can find out how to get them working here.

Ogg Vorbis is a free (as in speech) alternative to Mp3 which is subject to various royalty fees. Ogg Vorbis supports most of the features Mp3 does and is a very flexible audio format, especially for streaming.

This HowTo will try to introduce you to the world of Ogg Vorbis, by explaining how to install it and how to make use of it to store and play your audio data.

"In recent years both Linux and instant messaging have grown in popularity, yet the big players in instant messaging software have not actively kept their Linux clients up to date. This is where the GAIM project comes in." Read the review .

Rob Valliere has the major Linux web browsers, Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon and Opera. Please be aware that the latest versions of Netscape and Opera are currently not available for PPC Linux.

The stable 0.6.13 version of has been released. Sketch is the leading free vector drawing program for GNU/Linux and other unices. It's intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes.
This latest release of the Vector Drawing application fixes a minor security hole and adds often requested multi-line text handling.

A new stable version of the popular GUI IRC client for Linux, , has been released. It mainly has bug fixes while active development continues in the 1.9.x branch. Changelogs can be found within.

While many Linux users wouldn't think a second about playing music on a Linux box, others can't live without it. While there are a lot of console or GUI music players, the most popular without doubt is the WinAmp clone XMMS. This guide will show you a bit through the possibilities of XMMS and why it has become the "standard" Linux music player.

You can find the Apple iPod on Linux project site , it is an effort to get the iPod working with Linux. Its not working yet, but if you have any suggestions or ideas, it looks like they would appreciate it. This project was also given a quick mention on Slashdot's .

The iPod is a great device, but a little pricey in my book. I opted to get the D-Link ROQ-it, which is a USB based MP3 player with a 10GB hard drive for about half the price of the iPod. Of couse USB1.0 is a lot slower than firewire, but after applying a kernel patch, the unit actually works in Linux.

Gphoto2 is a complete rewrite of the award winning gphoto. gphoto2 is now a library to access digital cameras. This library comes with a command-line frontend and others frontends are available separately (gtkam, GnoCam, kamera). ...

xtunes is a comprehensive digital music system which is closely inspired by Apple's iTunes software. It supports ripping CDs, burning CDs, playing digital music (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis), and organizing digital music in a library with playlists.

In this release, the cache is now implemented via libgdbm, which provides a major speed enhancement. libxb is now statically linked, and there were many changes to make package creation possible. Get it .

Just before last weekend has commited to their CVS a working set of powermac 0.9.x driver series. It supports the chip found on the iMac as well. You need a configured source tree for the kernel you use to compile ALSA and start rocking. And, of course, full-duplex is supported.

Audacity is a multitrack/recording free audio editor. It started a few years back as a simple sound editor, but since then it has evolved in a powerfull modern editor, by supporting multi-track recording. The stable 1.0 version was released only a few days ago. OSNews has a .

According to SlashDot: With the release of Xine v0.9.11a, it is now possible to play back Quicktime movies encoded with the Sorenson SVQ1 encoding natively. There are still some minor issues with sound, and still no support for SVQ3 encoding, but overall this is a major achievement. Downloads are at .