Issue 53: April 2005

Comment: To the Test [PDF, 150 kB]
Software News: Slackware 10.1, Opera for Linux, and Xfce 4.2 [PDF, 160 kB]
Business News: PCs on the cheap, OSI changes, and Firefox loses a coder [PDF, 133 kB]
Linux World News: Chinese fonts, LA tries OpenOffice [PDF, 140 kB]
Insecurity News: Problems with CUPS, Python, and the Linux kernel [PDF, 205 kB]
Kernel News: DOSFS and the kernel development model [PDF, 114 kB]
Letters: Your letters and views [PDF, 256 kB]
Cover Story: Movies and Music - This month we feature practical multimedia techniques [PDF, 182 kB]
Cover Story: MainActor - Adding a title and other text messages to home videos [PDF, 923 kB]
Cover Story: Q-DVD Author - Burning your videos to DVD [PDF, 362 kB]
Cover Story: Transcode - A handy command-line tool for converting video formats [PDF, 282 kB]
Reviews: Books - PHP Power Programming, Nessus Network Auditing, and Open Source Network Administration [PDF, 154 kB]
Reviews: Xandros 3.0 Review [PDF, 211 kB]
Know How: Hotplugging in Linux - Udev and the Linux hotplug system [PDF, 360 kB]
Know How: MLDonkey - The multi-network MLDonkey client provides access to all major file sharing networks [PDF, 362 kB]
Know How: Knoda - A simple but practical example of a Knoda database [PDF, 275 kB]
SysAdmin: Charly's Column - Backups with Rsnapshot [PDF, 211 kB]
SysAdmin: Darwin Streaming Server - Try this free version of Apple's Quicktime streaming media server [PDF, 314 kB]
SysAdmin: Admin Workshop - The Ident protocol lets you associate users with TCP/IP connections [PDF, 257 kB]
Programming: OpenOffice Scripting - Use Basic macros to automate complex tasks in OpenOffice [PDF, 353 kB]
Programming: Perl Snapshot - A Perl script for tracking your investments [PDF, 285 kB]
Linux User: KTools: Learn a second language with the KVocTrain vocabulary testing tool [PDF, 287 kB]
Linux User: DeskTOPia - Beautify your desktop with hseroot and Eseroot [PDF, 260 kB]
Linux User: Gentoo File Manager - A versatile and platform-independent file management tool [PDF, 300 kB]
Linux User: ScummVM - The Scumm engine is the basis for many classic computer games [PDF, 272 kB]
Linux User: Command Line: Use the tr and dos2unix utilities to convert DOS files to and from Unix format [PDF, 277 kB]
Community: Projects on the Move - Xfe, IRC, muttprint, and the Sync2cd backup tool [PDF, 475 kB]
Community: Brave GNU World - The Amavisd-New spam filter daemon [PDF, 217 kB]
Service: Linux Magazine DVD [PDF, 225 kB]
Service: Contact Info
Service: UserFriendly cartoon [PDF, 200 kB]
Linux Magazine DVD: Ubuntu 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" [PDF, 231 kB]
Hi-res version for printing [PDF, 7039 kB]

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