Features

• autoSql and autoXml: Code Generators from the Genome Project  by Jim Kent and Heidi Brumbaugh
  When working with large amounts of data, save yourself some time with these tools, developed as a result of work on the Genome Project.
  
• Multiheading Linux Systems  by Brian Gollsneider and Arthur M. Messenger
  Get set up for those jobs that require double the screen space.
  
• Icarus Verilog: Open-Source Verilog More Than a Year Later  by Stephen Williams and Michael Baxter
  More competitive than ever—and still free!
  

Interview

• A Conversation with Stephen Williams  by Michael Baxter
  Stephen reveals the secrets of just how Icarus Verilog has achieved amelioration.
  

Indepth

• Keeping Up with Python: the 2.2 Release  by Wesley J. Chun
  Unification, iterators and more—the improvements to the Python 2.2 release series.
  
• DSI: Secure Carrier-Class Linux  by The DSI Team
  Security architecture specifically for clustered environments is lacking—but that will soon change.
  

Toolbox

• Kernel Korner   Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
  
• At the Forge   Apache 2.0  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Art Is but Engineered Reality  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Staying Current without Going Insane  by Mick Bauer
  
• GFX Industrial Light & Magic  by Robin Rowe
  

Columns

• Focus on Software   On Engineers  by David A. Bandel
  
• Focus on Embedded Systems   In Search of the Embedded Linux “Killer App”  by Rick Lehrbaum
  
• Linux for Suits   The Protocol Problem  by Doc Searls
  
• Geek Law   License Defamation  by Lawrence Rosen
  

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