links for 2008-06-03

• FreeSWITCH
  an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server
  (tags: voip telephony pbx sip asterisk asterix freeswitch)
• Linux on Desktop: Things to do on your new Ubuntu 8.04 Hard Heron Installation
  someone trying to make the jump from Windows to Ubuntu might be interested in installing the following applications and codecs
  (tags: ubuntu linux tips hardy heron 8.04 setup)
• Wikipedia Preprocessor (WikiPrep)
  a perl preprocessor that converts the standard Wikipedia XML dump into an extended XML format, which eliminates some information and adds some other useful bits and pieces
  (tags: MediaWiki Perl wikipedia xml wiki tools wikiprep)
• Index of /simplewiki/
  database dumps of the simple english wikipedia, which is much easier to understand for non-english speakers and english learners, but also contains many fewer articles
  (tags: simplewiki wikipedia clozure simpleenglish english simpleenglishwikipedia)