Features

• Transactions and Rollback with RPM  by James Olin Oden
  Learn to back out problem upgrades, and you'll be saving your “swear jar” money for cold beverages.
  
• HEC Montréal: Deployment of a Large-Scale Mail Installation  by Ludovic Marcotte
  If you thought you had mail problems, try 600,000 spams a day.
  
• SPF, MTAs and SRS  by Meng Weng Wong
  Spam “from” you? Gone. Spam forged from other SPF-using domains? Gone. Do we have your attention yet?
  
• Policy Routing for Fun and Profit  by David Mandelstam and Nenad Corbic
  A bargain Net connection gets expensive over its traffic limit. Routing mastery will keep bills in check and Net performance snappy.
  

Indepth

• The Linux-Based Recording Studio  by Aaron Trumm
  Fill in the parts between the mic and the Linux box, and make records the way you want.
  
• Using SQL-Ledger for Your Business  by David A. Bandel
  If the proprietary accounting system is the last obstacle to your all-Linux office, you just bought the right magazine.
  
• Automating Tasks with Aap  by Bram Moolenaar
  Do what make can, and more, with the next-generation software build tool.
  
• How to Build LSB Applications  by Stuart R. Anderson
  Use these simple tools to make your app binary-compatible with the leading distributions.
  

Embedded

• Shielded CPUs: Real-Time Performance in Standard Linux  by Steve Brosky
  Add another tool to the real-time toolbox—simply dedicate one processor to your most critical task.
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Blosxom  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Using DMA  by James Bottomley
  
• Cooking with Linux   Eye Candy for Admins?  by Marcel Gagné
  

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• EOF   Open Legal Research  by Pamela Jones
  

Review

• Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk  by Marty Leisner
  

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