Linux Journal Contents #170, June 2008

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Linux Journal Issue #170/June 2008

The people stood up and they have been counted: the Linux Journal 2008 Readers' Choice awards are here. After you find out if your candidate won, make sure you check out the rest of the issue. Chef Marcel highlights some educational programs for the little ones. Also in this issue: Rails authentication, image resizing with bash, sound on the OLPC, script writing with ScriptBuddy, email with Zimbra, the Cowon iAudio media player, some CD hacks, some Firefox extensions, and booting a thin client across a wireless connection.

Features

Readers' Choice Awards 2008 [2] by James Gray
The results of the 2008 Readers' Choice Awards are in! How do your preferences compare with those of the larger reader community? Get ready for some surprises!

Indepth

Must-Have Firefox Extensions [3] by Dan Sawyer
Firefox is more than just a Web browser, but how much more?
Remaster Knoppix without Remastering [4] by Kyle Rankin
If you have ever wanted to remaster Knoppix but were frustrated with the difficult process, check out how to make custom Knoppix disks while bypassing the full remastering process.
Thin Clients Booting over a Wireless Bridge [5] by Ronan Skehill, Alan Dunne and John Nelson
Setting up a thin-client network, and some useful operation/administration tools.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge Authenticating to a Rails Application [6]
Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux Learning...Disguised [7]
Dave Taylor's Work the Shell Resizing Images, Sort Of [8]
Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin Customizing Linux Live CDs, Part II [9]
Kyle Rankin's Hack and / Lightning Hacks [10] by Kyle Rankin
Doc Searls' EOF The Bigger Switch [11]

Reviews

Sounding Out with the OLPC XO [12] by Dave Phillips
Need a Script? [13] by Dan Sawyer
Zimbra Desktop [14] by Daniel Bartholomew
COWON iAudio 7 Multimedia Player [15] by Philip Raymond

In Every Issue

Letters [16]
upFRONT [17]
New Products [18]
New Projects [19]

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[2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065
[3] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10001
[4] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10075
[5] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9850
[6] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10080
[7] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10079
[8] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10057
[9] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10076
[10] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10066
[11] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10072
[12] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10081
[13] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10086
[14] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10054
[15] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9919
[16] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10055
[17] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10073
[18] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10085
[19] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10056