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Features

• The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box [2]  by Nicholas Petreley
  How to start with the ultimate motherboard and build yourself your own Ultimate Desktop.
  
• The Ultimate Linux Desktop [3]  by Dee-Ann LeBlanc
  The Ultimate Desktop doesn't come cheap, but you'll get what you pay for.
  
• The Ultimate Linux Server [4]  by Nicholas Petreley
  Want a quad-processor server with performance and reliability for an amazingly reasonable price?
  
• The Ultimate Multimedia Center(s) [5]  by Jon “maddog” Hall and Clay Claiborne
  How do you create an Ultimate Linux Multimedia Center for less than a million dollars?
  
• The Ultimate Linux Handheld [6]  by Doc Searls and Jim Thompson
  Nothing beats the flexibility and expandability of this Linux handheld.
  
• The Ultimate Future Linux Box [7]  by Nicholas Petreley
  The new AMD socket AM2 processor may not break speed records today, but it is likely to be the foundation for the future.
  

Indepth

• NetDVD: Building a Network-Attached Peripheral with Linux [8]  by Bradford C. Smith
  Why equip every PC with storage and DVD writers when you can create an all-purpose network attached peripheral?
  
• Developing P2P Protocols across NAT [9]  by Girish Venkatachalam
  Punch some holes in your network in order to make P2P work behind a firewall.
  
• Mobile Phones: the Embedded Linux Challenge [10]  by Bill Weinberg
  Linux can be the ultimate embedded operating system if you know the secrets.
  

Columns

• At the Forge   eBay Web Services [11]  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Searching for the Ultimate Desktop Enhancements [12]  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Work the Shell   End Game [13]  by Dave Taylor
  
• Paranoid Penguin   An Introduction to Novell AppArmor [14]  by Mick Bauer
  
• Beachhead   No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem! [15]  by Jon “maddog” Hall
  
• Linux for Suits   Progress Report toward Independent Identity [16]  by Doc Searls
  
• /var/opinion   Postscripts on the Ultimate Linux Boxes [17]  by Nicholas Petreley
  

In Every Issue

• Letters [18]  
  
• UPFRONT [19]  
  
• New Products [20]