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Simple Virtual Appliances with Linux and Xen

By Matthew Hoskins 
Use Xen and Linux to make your own ready-to-use software virtual appliances. Create a DNS server, a Web server, a MySQL server—whatever you need, ready to go when you need it. more>>

Hack and / - Dr hjkl Meets the Vimperator

By Kyle Rankin 
If you want to be a futuristic Web-browsing machine, terminate that mouse, pick up the keyboard, and find out how Vimperator can transform Firefox into a modal half-vim, half-browser cyborg. more>>

Xastir—Open-Source Client for the Automatic Packet Reporting System

By Curtis E. Mills 
What do search and rescue, Amateur Radio and Linux have in common? more>>
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Work the Shell - Listening to Your Twitter Stream

By Dave Taylor 
Answer simple Twitter queries automatically. more>>

Hack and / - Message for You Sir

By Kyle Rankin 
Why check for new e-mail every minute when a script can do it for you? Learn how to trigger desktop notifications in your own scripts. more>>

Multisession Workstations

By Jorge Salgado 
Press F1 for bash, F2 for Windows, F3 for Ubuntu, F4 for Mac OS and F5 for Citrix. Linux makes it all possible, and you don't even need a hard drive! more>>

Host Identity Protocol for Linux

By Abhinav Pathak 
Have you ever wondered why your multimedia streams stop working after you switch to a different network with your laptop? Have you thought about why setting up a server on your home network behind a NAT is so awkward or even impossible? Host Identity Protocol for Linux (HIPL) offers a remedy to these and other problems. more>>

Use Linux as a SAN Provider

By Michael Nugent 
At one-tenth the cost of the typical commercial appliance, Linux can deliver storage with speed and redundancy. Make the move toward a full-featured iSCSI SAN solution with what you already have in your server room. more>>

Hack and / - Dr hjkl and Mr Hack

By Kyle Rankin 
Arrow keys, schmarrow keys—some of the best programs out there let you move around from the home row just like vim intended it. more>>

IPv4 Anycast with Linux and Quagga

By Philip Martin 
Ease configuration headaches and improve availability with anycast. more>>

Android Everywhere!

By Bill Childers 
Put Android where you'd least expect it—from phones to virtual machines. more>>

Innovative Interfaces with Clutter

By Alex Crits-Christoph 
Use Clutter to develop OpenGL applications with rich 2-D and 3-D interfaces that include object rotation, scaling, texturing and more. more>>

FPGA Programming with Linux

By Marco Fioretti 
Short of opening your own chip fab, you can't get much closer to the metal than FPGA programming. more>>
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