Features

OpenLDAP Everywhere Revisited  by Craig Swanson and Matt Lung

A new version of Samba makes this company-wide directory solution even more capable than before.

WIX: a Distributed Internet Exchange  by Richard Hulse

Neighbor-to-neighbor fiber and wireless are enabling new business plans, entertainment and more.

Easy Database Development Using Rekall  by Joshua Bentham

Why design a GUI business app in one vendor's locked-in solution when you can give your customers the flexibility to deploy anywhere?

Indepth

Measuring and Improving Application Performance with PerfSuite  by Rick Kufrin

Throw more hardware at it or make it run faster? Here's the elegant, low-budget way to high performance.

Developing GNOME Applications with Java  by Mike Petullo

With modern tools, Java apps don't have to be second-class citizens. Integrate them with the rest of the desktop.

Text Manipulation with sed  by Larry Richardson

Use this file-tweaking power tool to clean up big files in a flash.

Designing and Implementing a Domain-Specific Language  by Ryan Paul

Designing the right language can make it easy to express the configuration you need.

Using an iPod in Linux  by Bert Hayes

Get your music collection moved over to Linux without losing your portable player.

Embedded

Real-Time Control of a Magnetic Bearings Using RTLinux  by Harland Alpaugh

Real-time code on an ordinary PC suspends this spinning shaft in mid-air.

Toolbox

At the Forge   Databases and Calendars  by Reuven M. Lerner

Kernel Korner   Linux as an Ethernet Bridge  by Jim Robinson

Cooking with Linux   Tricked-Out Terminals  by Marcel Gagné

Column

EOF  by Ren Bucholz

User-Modifiable Politics

Departments

From the Editor  

Letters  

upFRONT  

New Products