Asterisk is an insanely powerful, yet easy to use, open source voip telephony toolkit (server software) that runs on virtually any platform. Asterik is a by-product of Revision3, a friend of Digg.
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Fluendo GStreamer MP3 Plug-in is a combination of multiple things: a MIT licensed source code package implementating the mp3 codec, a fully licensed binary GStreamer plug-in available for download (and) a redistribution contract allowing distributions to distribute the binary Fluendo GStreamer MP3 plug-in free of charge.
Automatix is a graphical interface for installation of a lot of apps on UBUNTU BREEZY (DOES NOT WORK ON Warty, Hoary or Dapper, more here) and for tweaking a few things to get your Ubuntu box up and working in full throttle in the quickest possible timespan. See also EasyUbuntu (already covered here, there, there & there !)
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