anyRemoteanyRemotep provides remote control service on Linux through Bluetooth, InfraRed, Wi-Fi or just TCP/IP connection. anyRemote supports wide range of modern cell phones like Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola and others.
It was developed as thin communication layer between Bluetooth (or IR, Wi-Fi) capabled phone and Linux, and in principle could be configured to manage almost any software.
anyRemote is console application, but in addition there are GUI front ends for Gnome and KDE. Download anyRemote
Clonezilla LivesClonezill Live allows you to use CD/DVD or USB flash drive to boot and run clonezill for Partition backup and Restoration. It allows you to backup and restore complete system. The primary benefit of Clonezilla Live is that it eliminates the need to set up a DRBL server ahead of time and the need for the computer being cloned to boot from a network. Clonezilla Live can be used to clone individual computers using a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Though the image size is limited by the boot media's storage capacity, this problem can be eliminated by using a network filesystem such as sshfs or samba. Download Clonezill Live
Skype for LinuxNew beta version of Skype for Linux, with extra features and better sound and video quality. This release comes with High Quality Video and super wideband audio; so now the special people in your world will feel much closer and clearer on your Skype calls. Get Skype Beta-2 and experience the jump in quality for yourselves with new features:
- Screen sharing
- Quote a message in chat
- Localized time formats
- Support for UI styles
- Report abuse
Linux boots in 2.97 secondsJapanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux's existing "suspend-to-disk" capability. Warp 2 comprises a bootloader, Linux kernel, and a "hibernation driver" . The driver takes a snapshot of RAM when hibernation is launched, saving the contents into flash memory, optionally compressing the data. On start-up, the contents are quickly returned to RAM, so that the system resumes its previous running state.
Warp 2 boasts a smaller memory size for hibernated data, compared to the original version, Lineo said. The improved snapshot compression can squeeze the image filesize to about half, depending on the contents of RAM. In one Lineo demo, for example, RAM image size was reduced from 32MB to 19MB. 
