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Features

• OpenLDAP Everywhere Revisited [2]  by Craig Swanson and Matt Lung
  A new version of Samba makes this company-wide directory solution even more capable than before.
  
• WIX: a Distributed Internet Exchange [3]  by Richard Hulse
  Neighbor-to-neighbor fiber and wireless are enabling new business plans, entertainment and more.
  
• Easy Database Development Using Rekall [4]  by Joshua Bentham
  Why design a GUI business app in one vendor's locked-in solution when you can give your customers the flexibility to deploy anywhere?
  

Indepth

• Measuring and Improving Application Performance with PerfSuite [5]  by Rick Kufrin
  Throw more hardware at it or make it run faster? Here's the elegant, low-budget way to high performance.
  
• Developing GNOME Applications with Java [6]  by Mike Petullo
  With modern tools, Java apps don't have to be second-class citizens. Integrate them with the rest of the desktop.
  
• Text Manipulation with sed [7]  by Larry Richardson
  Use this file-tweaking power tool to clean up big files in a flash.
  
• Designing and Implementing a Domain-Specific Language [8]  by Ryan Paul
  Designing the right language can make it easy to express the configuration you need.
  
• Using an iPod in Linux [9]  by Bert Hayes
  Get your music collection moved over to Linux without losing your portable player.
  

Embedded

• Real-Time Control of a Magnetic Bearings Using RTLinux [10]  by Harland Alpaugh
  Real-time code on an ordinary PC suspends this spinning shaft in mid-air.
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Databases and Calendars [11]  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Linux as an Ethernet Bridge [12]  by Jim Robinson
  
• Cooking with Linux   Tricked-Out Terminals [13]  by Marcel Gagné
  

Column

• EOF [14]  by Ren Bucholz
  User-Modifiable Politics
  

Departments

• From the Editor [15]  
  
• Letters [16]  
  
• upFRONT [17]  
  
• New Products [18]