Features

• Power Up Your E-Mail with Mutt  by Victor Gregorio
  See how Mutt's text-based display outperforms the rest.
  
• Nginx: the High-Performance Web Server and Reverse Proxy  by Will Reese
  A leaner, meaner Apache.
  
• djbdns: More Than Just a Mouthful of Consonants  by Cory Wright
  Upgrade from BIND to djbdns.
  
• Xtreme Illustrations  by Dan Sawyer
  Check out Xara Extreme, a Linux-compatible alternative to Inkscape.
  
• Take a Ride on the Gentoo Train  by Mike Diehl
  Gentoo, power and flexibility, but not for the faint of heart.
  

Indepth

• The Story of Firefox: from Underdog to Superhero  by James Gray
  The fascinating story of how Firefox went from underdog to top-dog browser.
  
• State of the Art: Linux Audio 2008  by Dave Phillips
  How does Linux sound these days? Dave Phillips gets his groove on in Part I of his survey of Linux audio capabilities.
  

Columns

• Shawn Powers' Current_Issue.tar.gz   When Underdogs Take Over the World  
  
• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Shoehorning Data into a Database  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Browsers with the Speed of Lightning  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Spreading Out Numbers  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Secured Remote Desktop/Application Sessions  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Do the Splits  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   What Happens after Next February?  
  

Review

• Simplifying Backups with Zmanda Recovery Manager  by Alolita Sharma
  

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