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Simulators for Training Firefighters  by Douglas Maxwell

Fewer real fires means we need more fake fires for training. Behind the scenes at a Navy/New York Fire Department simulator.

Hacking Democracy  by Doc Searls

LAMP sites at US presidential campaigns offer lessons for your local politics too.

An Open-Source System for Electronic Court Filing  by Jim Beard

Can the 17,500 courts in the US agree on a common electronic filing system? Good news from the standards front.

Indepth

GNU Radio: Tools for Exploring the Radio Frequency Spectrum  by Eric Blossom

Listen to ham, shortwave, AM and FM, and even watch HDTV and invent new communications modes, all on the same hardware.

The Linux Soundfile Editor Roundup  by Dave Phillips

If you want to give your games, desktop apps and answering machine an audible personality, you'll need one of these tools.

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Driving Me Nuts  by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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At the Forge   XOOPS  by Reuven M. Lerner

Kernel Korner   udev—Persistent Device Naming in User Space  by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Cooking with Linux   When Democracy Becomes Crazy!  by Marcel Gagné

Paranoid Penguin   Using Yum for RPM Updates  by Mick Bauer

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EOF   Free Software Licenses  by Maureen O'Sullivan

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Xandros Desktop Deluxe 2.0  by Dean Staff

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