Features

• InfiniBand and Linux  by Roland Dreier
  If 120Gb/s isen't fast enough for you, try receiving data without the CPU doing a thing.
  
• Belly Dance and Free Software  by Dawn Devine and Michael Baxter
  Publicize your next event with a good-looking flyer or poster. Scribus works great, even if you can't dance.
  
• Fd.o: Building the Desktop in the Right Places  by Marco Fioretti
  The designers of the X Window System must have done something right. Here's how X, the OS and the desktop are growing together to meet user needs.
  

Indepth

• VIA PadLock—Wicked Fast Encryption  by Michal Ludvig
  Add hardware support for a common task and measure the performance improvements.
  
• Writing a GCC Front End  by Tom Tromey
  Wow, it's practically a whole new compiler. Put the power of GCC to work behind your new language.
  
• Linux in the Classroom: an Experience with Linux and Open-Source Software in an Educational Environment  by Joe Ruffolo and Ron Terry
  
  
• Ten Mysteries of about:config  by Nigel McFarlane
  If you're catching Firefox fever, but the browser isn't quite right, you might just find the tweak you need in this “secret” configuration tool.
  
• Building a Bioinformatics Supercomputing Cluster: Applications of Parallel Computing  by Josh Stroschein, Doug Jennewein and Joe Reynoldson
  It's easier than ever to turn commodity hardware into a high-performance computing project. Here, Linux enables searching a lot of DNA sequences fast.
  

Embedded

• Things You Never Should Do in the Kernel  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Don't read files from a kernel module. Well, if you must, read on.
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Sunbird and iCalendar  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Kprobes—a Kernel Debugger  by R. Krishnakumar
  
• Cooking with Linux   Crossing Platforms  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Securing Your WLAN with WPA and FreeRADIUS, Part II  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• Linux for Suits   L'Inspired  by Doc Searls
  
• EOF   If You Don't Believe in DRM, It Can't Hurt You  by Don Marti
  

Reviews

• Cyclades AlterPath Manager E200  by Matthew Hoskins
  
• The Official Blender 2.3 Guide  by Jeffrey Bianchine
  

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