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.

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

The free but proprietary Skype is a popular calling option.

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.

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.

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

If you need fast answers for what's inside, you can use a Bash script to obtain an inventory of hardware on your Linux system.