On the second day of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gnome and KDE developers have been focused on topics surrounding meta data, community, and infrastructure. Concerning multimedia, audio support for the open source desktop has proved to be a hot topic.

Voice over IP on the Internet gives communication a personal touch, but it takes applications like Cheese and WebcamStudio to exploit the creative potential of Internet telephony.

Just because the MTP protocol is promoted by Microsoft doesn't mean you can't get music onto your MTP devices.

The new version automatically organizes music libraries and is fully integrative with iTunes.

Version 9.04 of the multi-platform XBMC Media Center is released. Codenamed Babylon, the software comes with massive and in part, impressive changes.

XMMS is dead, long live Audacious. But what happens to all the cool plugins? With Infinity, one of them has now been resurrected.

By their own accord, the Amarok music player people are working on the "coolness factor" for Amarok 2.1 and hope to make a good first impression with their Beta 1.