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Issue 71: October 2006

Comment: Hat Check [PDF, 50 kB]
Software News: Media Center for Linux 5.0, Lotus Notes 7 for Linux, Suse Enterprise Linux 10 [PDF, 166 kB]
Business News: Google code site, Linux and GPLv3, Free VMware [PDF, 67 kB]
Linux World News: Norwegian Free Software Awards, Bhutan's national Linux distro, Ottawa Linux Symposium [PDF, 59 kB]
Kernel News: Status of Suspend, Magic SysRq, Status of Reiser 4, Cleaning up /proc [PDF, 59 kB]
Insecurity News: Samba, Firebird/Thunderbird, krb5, Apache [PDF, 145 kB]
Letters: Your letters and views [PDF, 94 kB]
Cover Story: Now that hotplugging in Linux is a reality, what can you do with it? In this month's cover story, we look at some helpful hotplug hacks [PDF, 88 kB]
Cover Story: Debian Hotplug - We'll show you some real-world examples of custom hotplug scripts [PDF, 362 kB]
Cover Story: Ivman - Build your own hotplug solutions with Ivman, a generic handler for HAL events [PDF, 127 kB]
Cover Story: Udev - At the center of Linux device management is the Udev system. We'll look at how to customize your environment by creating and implementing your own Udev rules. [PDF, 277 kB]
Reviews: Book Reviews - This month we review Defeating the Hacker and Designing Interfaces [PDF, 70 kB]
Reviews: Ubuntu 6.06 - Learn what's new in the long-anticipated Dapper Drake [PDF, 279 kB]
Know-How: BOINC - Use the tools of the famous SETI@home project to build your own grid computing solution [PDF, 209 kB]
Know-How: MythTV - Turn your Linux computer into a home media center [PDF, 332 kB]
Know-How: Ask Klaus! - Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions. This month Klaus looks at Audacity problems, probing for drivers, and Open Source hard disk tools [PDF, 235 kB]
SysAdmin: Charly's Column - Charly shows how to route SSH via HTTP with a tool called Weird Mind [PDF, 90 kB]
SysAdmin: Singwall - We'll describe how to build a custom Netfilter module with this example of a singing firewall [PDF, 235 kB]
Programming: Perl: Link Spam - This month we bring you a Perl script that protects forums from spam postings [PDF, 350 kB]
Linux User: KTools: Treeline - This promising mindmapping tool helps you orgnize your ideas [PDF, 200 kB]
Linux User: Workspace: Simple Groupware - This versatile suite lets you customize your groupware environment [PDF, 200 kB]
Linux User: Command Line - We examine diagnostic tools for troubleshooting network connections [PDF, 198 kB]
Community: UKUUG - 200 Linux and Open Source enthusiasts met in Brighton for the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) summer meeting [PDF, 74 kB]
Community: OSCON - Tutorials, conference sessions, and stimulating discussions filled the halls of this year's OSCON conference is Portland, Oregon [PDF, 92 kB]
Community: Community Notes - Jon Masters pays a visit to the Ottawa Linux Symposium [PDF, 105 kB]
Community: Projects on the Move - This month we feature X2X, Synergy, Wikia Campaigns, and the latest news from Debian [PDF, 159 kB]
Service: Linux Magazine DVD [PDF, 141 kB]
Service: Contact Info
Service: UserFriendly cartoon [PDF, 147 kB]
Linux Magazine DVD: SimplyMEPIS 6.0 - Full DVD version - Includes additional 1,900 packages from the MEPIS extras pool [PDF, 132 kB]
Hi-res version for printing [PDF, 3236 kB]

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