Features

The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box  by Nicholas Petreley

How to start with the ultimate motherboard and build yourself your own Ultimate Desktop.

The Ultimate Linux Desktop  by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

The Ultimate Desktop doesn't come cheap, but you'll get what you pay for.

The Ultimate Linux Server  by Nicholas Petreley

Want a quad-processor server with performance and reliability for an amazingly reasonable price?

The Ultimate Multimedia Center(s)  by Jon “maddog” Hall and Clay Claiborne

How do you create an Ultimate Linux Multimedia Center for less than a million dollars?

The Ultimate Linux Handheld  by Doc Searls and Jim Thompson

Nothing beats the flexibility and expandability of this Linux handheld.

The Ultimate Future Linux Box  by Nicholas Petreley

The new AMD socket AM2 processor may not break speed records today, but it is likely to be the foundation for the future.

Indepth

NetDVD: Building a Network-Attached Peripheral with Linux  by Bradford C. Smith

Why equip every PC with storage and DVD writers when you can create an all-purpose network attached peripheral?

Developing P2P Protocols across NAT  by Girish Venkatachalam

Punch some holes in your network in order to make P2P work behind a firewall.

Mobile Phones: the Embedded Linux Challenge  by Bill Weinberg

Linux can be the ultimate embedded operating system if you know the secrets.

Columns

At the Forge   eBay Web Services  by Reuven M. Lerner

Cooking with Linux   Searching for the Ultimate Desktop Enhancements  by Marcel Gagné

Work the Shell   End Game  by Dave Taylor

Paranoid Penguin   An Introduction to Novell AppArmor  by Mick Bauer

Beachhead   No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem!  by Jon “maddog” Hall

Linux for Suits   Progress Report toward Independent Identity  by Doc Searls

/var/opinion   Postscripts on the Ultimate Linux Boxes  by Nicholas Petreley

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