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Event Report: SCALE 7x A look back at the seventh annual Southern California Linux Expo

The seventh annual Southern California Linux Expo, held February 20-22, included a wide variety of talks on open source projects, system administration, and software development from luminaries in the open source community. This year’s conference was larger than ever and included keynotes from Bradley Kuhn, President of Software Freedom Conservancy, and Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, openSUSE's Community Manager. Kuhn talked about concerns with Software as a Service (a.k.a. the cloud), and Brockmeier discussed ways to improve the reach of an open source project.

Learning FreeNAS Chapter 2: Preparing to Add FreeNAS to Your Network

Configure and manage a network attached storage solution

• Turn a PC into a Network Attached Storage server with FreeNAS
• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot your FreeNAS installation
• Up to date with the latest FreeNAS release
• Includes a comprehensive troubleshooting section

Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 Chapter 11: Network Configuration—IPv6

Building, securing, and maintaining networks with the FreeBSD operating system

• Set up and manage networking on FreeBSD
• Virtualization with FreeBSD Jails, IPFW and PF
• Configure interfaces, protocols, and routing

Expert Python Programming Chapter 10: Documenting Your Project

Best practices for designing, coding, and distributing your Python software

• Learn Python development best practices from an expert, with detailed coverage of naming and coding conventions
• Apply object-oriented principles, design patterns, and advanced syntax tricks
• Manage your code with distributed version control
• Profile and optimize your code
• Proactive test-driven development and continuous integration

Five Reasons to Make Friends with Puppy Why you should give this Puppy a closer look

By now, you might have noticed that I'm a big fan of Puppy Linux. It is the distro I'm running on my workhorse ASUS Eee PC 701 4G netbook, and it helps me to stay productive not only in airports, cafés, and hotel rooms but also at home. But if you are still undecided whether you should give Puppy Linux a try, here are five reasons why this little gem deserves a closer look.

Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP Chapter 2: Setting Up the Application Framework

Develop a complete PHP web application from start to finish

Practical Ruby Projects Chapter 2: Making Music with Ruby

Learn advanced programming techniques and explore Ruby’s full potential through a varied series of exciting projects

PHP The EXPERT’s VOIce® in Open Source PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice Chapter 2: PHP and Objects

Objects were not always a key part of the PHP project. In fact, they have been described as an afterthought by PHP’s designers. As afterthoughts go, this one has proved remarkably resilient. In this chapter, I introduce coverage
of objects by summarizing the development of PHP’s object-oriented features.

Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery Chapter 6: Modeling Furniture

Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery will show you how to create realistic architectural models in Blender. Blender is an open-source 3D animation program released as free software. It can be used for modeling, texturing, skinning, animating, and so on. It runs on all the important operating systems (including Windows, Mac, and Linux).

Beginning Fedora Chapter 4: Preinstallation Steps

Installing any kind of operating system is a big move and can come as something of a shock to your PC. However, Fedora makes this complicated maneuver as easy as possible. Its installation routines are very advanced compared to previous versions of Linux, and even compared to other current distributions.