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Features

• Simulators for Training Firefighters [2]  by Douglas Maxwell
  Fewer real fires means we need more fake fires for training. Behind the scenes at a Navy/New York Fire Department simulator.
  
• Hacking Democracy [3]  by Doc Searls
  LAMP sites at US presidential campaigns offer lessons for your local politics too.
  
• An Open-Source System for Electronic Court Filing [4]  by Jim Beard
  Can the 17,500 courts in the US agree on a common electronic filing system? Good news from the standards front.
  

Indepth

• GNU Radio: Tools for Exploring the Radio Frequency Spectrum [5]  by Eric Blossom
  Listen to ham, shortwave, AM and FM, and even watch HDTV and invent new communications modes, all on the same hardware.
  
• The Linux Soundfile Editor Roundup [6]  by Dave Phillips
  If you want to give your games, desktop apps and answering machine an audible personality, you'll need one of these tools.
  

Embedded

• Driving Me Nuts [7]  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
  
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   XOOPS [8]  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   udev—Persistent Device Naming in User Space [9]  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
  
• Cooking with Linux   When Democracy Becomes Crazy! [10]  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Using Yum for RPM Updates [11]  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• EOF   Free Software Licenses [12]  by Maureen O'Sullivan
  

Reviews

• Xandros Desktop Deluxe 2.0 [13]  by Dean Staff
  

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