Feature

• Editors' Choice 2006  by LJ Staff
  Linux Journal editors pick their favorites.
  

Indepth

• LyX and Lulu  by Donald Emmack
  LyX beats word processors for publishing.
  
• Tighter SSH Security with Two-Factor Authentication  by Paul Sery
  Can a USB pendrive work as a smart card?
  
• A Server (Almost) of Your Own  by George Belotsky
  Set up a virtual private server.
  
• Examining Load Average  by Ray Walker
  Can you trust CPU usage numbers?
  
• Thinking Thin  by Lyle Frost
  Do you really need a modern desktop PC to get your work done?
  
• AcidRip—a Gtk2 Front End to MEncoder  by Daniel Bartholomew
  DVDs are too fragile to keep without backups.
  
• Federated Desktop and File Server Search with libferris  by Ben Martin
  Federate your indexes to enhance searches.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Ajax Application Design  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Tonight's Menu: Diner's Choice!  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Breaking Numbers Down  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Running Network Services under User-Mode Linux, Part II  
  
• Jon “maddog” Hall's Beachhead   Events for Suits  
  
• Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Greater Goods  
  
• Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   Plug This in Your Pipe and Smoke It  
  

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