Linux Journal Contents #127, November 2004

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Linux Journal Issue #127/November 2004

Features

OSCAR and Bioinformatics [2] by Bernard Li
Use the software that the big labs use, and put a decade of Linux cluster management experience to work for you.
Scientific Visualizations with Pov-Ray [3] by Leigh Orf
Here's how a much-needed patch turned the popular rendering package into a scientific power tool.
Improving Application Performance on HPC Systems with Process Synchronization [4] by Paul Terry, Amar Shan and Pentti Huttunen
It's a simple concept that gives big results. A team from Cray takes a leap forward in the struggle to keep all processors in the cluster occupied efficiently.

Indepth

Readers' Choice 2004 [5] by Heather Mead
Evolution or mutt? Vim or Kate? Old school or eye candy? And what's your favorite beverage for coding sessions? Heather has the answers.
MyHDL: a Python-Based Hardware Description Language [6] by Jan Decaluwe
Design hardware in Python? Why not? New features of the language are making it a simple, readable choice for new hardware ideas.
Revision Control with Arch: Introduction to Arch [7] by Nick Moffitt
Get started with a new, flexible working style that's convenient for far-flung projects and hacking on your laptop.

Embedded

Linux and RTAI for Building Automation [8] by Andres Benitez and Vicente Gonzales
Simple commodity units and Linux do the work of a big expensive system. Sounds familiar, but we're talking about air conditioning.

Toolbox

At the Forge Aggregating with Atom [9] by Reuven M. Lerner
Kernel Korner AEM: a Scalable and Native Event Mechanism for Linux [10] by Frédéric Rossi
Cooking with Linux Performing at the Speed of Light [11] by Marcel Gagné
Paranoid Penguin Linux Filesystem Security, Part II [12] by Mick Bauer

Columns

Linux for Suits We're Going to Be a 90% Linux Shop [13] by Doc Searls
EOF No 2.7 Kernel? [14] by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Reviews

GumStix WS200X [15] by Michael Boerner
Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting [16] by Marco Fioretti

Departments

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[2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7462
[3] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7486
[4] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7690
[5] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7724
[6] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7542
[7] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7671
[8] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7258
[9] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7729
[10] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6980
[11] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7728
[12] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7727
[13] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7730
[14] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7732
[15] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7652
[16] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7292
[17] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7772
[18] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7700
[19] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7725
[20] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7722