Linux Journal Issue #152/December 2006

Feature

Editors' Choice 2006  by LJ Staff
Linux Journal editors pick their favorites.

Indepth

LyX and Lulu  by Donald Emmack
LyX beats word processors for publishing.
Tighter SSH Security with Two-Factor Authentication  by Paul Sery
Can a USB pendrive work as a smart card?
A Server (Almost) of Your Own  by George Belotsky
Set up a virtual private server.
Examining Load Average  by Ray Walker
Can you trust CPU usage numbers?
Thinking Thin  by Lyle Frost
Do you really need a modern desktop PC to get your work done?
AcidRip—a Gtk2 Front End to MEncoder  by Daniel Bartholomew
DVDs are too fragile to keep without backups.
Federated Desktop and File Server Search with libferris  by Ben Martin
Federate your indexes to enhance searches.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Ajax Application Design  
Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Tonight's Menu: Diner's Choice!  
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Breaking Numbers Down  
Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Running Network Services under User-Mode Linux, Part II  
Jon “maddog” Hall's Beachhead   Events for Suits  
Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Greater Goods  
Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   Plug This in Your Pipe and Smoke It  

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