Features

Transactions and Rollback with RPM  by James Olin Oden

Learn to back out problem upgrades, and you'll be saving your “swear jar” money for cold beverages.

HEC Montréal: Deployment of a Large-Scale Mail Installation  by Ludovic Marcotte

If you thought you had mail problems, try 600,000 spams a day.

SPF, MTAs and SRS  by Meng Weng Wong

Spam “from” you? Gone. Spam forged from other SPF-using domains? Gone. Do we have your attention yet?

Policy Routing for Fun and Profit  by David Mandelstam and Nenad Corbic

A bargain Net connection gets expensive over its traffic limit. Routing mastery will keep bills in check and Net performance snappy.

Indepth

The Linux-Based Recording Studio  by Aaron Trumm

Fill in the parts between the mic and the Linux box, and make records the way you want.

Using SQL-Ledger for Your Business  by David A. Bandel

If the proprietary accounting system is the last obstacle to your all-Linux office, you just bought the right magazine.

Automating Tasks with Aap  by Bram Moolenaar

Do what make can, and more, with the next-generation software build tool.

How to Build LSB Applications  by Stuart R. Anderson

Use these simple tools to make your app binary-compatible with the leading distributions.

Embedded

Shielded CPUs: Real-Time Performance in Standard Linux  by Steve Brosky

Add another tool to the real-time toolbox—simply dedicate one processor to your most critical task.

Toolbox

At the Forge   Blosxom  by Reuven M. Lerner

Kernel Korner   Using DMA  by James Bottomley

Cooking with Linux   Eye Candy for Admins?  by Marcel Gagné

Columns

EOF   Open Legal Research  by Pamela Jones

Review

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk  by Marty Leisner

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