Features

DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre  by Robin Rowe

What can you do with Linux and 20 million CPU render hours?

Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine  by Anthony Kay

If you really need OCR.

Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape  by Marco Fioretti

Want scalable beauty?

Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger, Creator of Pixel  by James Gray

Photoshop comes to Linux, sort of.

Indepth

Automated GIMP Processing of Web Images  by Ben Martin

Program GIMP to work for you.

Writing Your Own Image Gallery Application with the UNIX Shell  by Girish Venkatachalam

GUI? We don't need no stinking GUI.

Programming Python, Part II  by José P. E. "Pupeno" Fernàndez

More love for learning Python.

Image Processing with QccPack and Python  by Suhas Desai

A library collection for Python image processing.

Mambo Exploit Blocked by SELinux  by Richard Bullington-McGuire

SELinux catches exploits.

Role-Based Single Sign-on with Perl and Ruby  by Robb Shecter

Let the role dictate the privileges.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   First Steps with Django  

Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Let Me Show You How It's Done with a Little Video  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part IV  

Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Beyond Blogging's Black Holes  

Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   Amazing Free Distributions Abound  

Quick Takes

Deep Images  by Dan Sawyer

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