Features

• SMP and Embedded Real-Time  by Paul McKenney
  What happens when multicore CPUs penetrate embedded systems?
  
• Choosing a GUI Library for Your Embedded Device  by Martin Hansen
  GUI design with QTopia and Nano-X.
  
• The HAL Project  by Pascal Charest, Michael Lenczner and Guillaume Marceau
  It's hacking, but is it art?
  
• How to Port Linux When the Hardware Turns Soft  by David Lynch
  Soul of the Pico machines
  

Indepth

• An Interview with Marten Mickos  by Glyn Moody
  Marten Mickos chats about the success of MySQL.
  
• Creating a Lulu Book Cover with Pixel  by Donald Emmack
  Pixel makes a Lyx book pixel perfect.
  
• An Automated Reliable Backup Solution  by Andrew De Ponte
  A super backup solution on the cheap.
  
• Ajax Timelines and the Semantic Web  by Ben Martin
  Should we create a timeline on how we implement Timeline?
  
• Controlling Spam with SpamAssassin  by Colin McGregor
  Assassinate spam with extreme prejudice.
  

Columns

• Tech Tips with Gnull and Voyd   Tech Tips  
  
• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Prototype  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   It's about Time!  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   How Do People Find You on Google?  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Running Network Services under User-Mode Linux, Part III  
  
• Jon “maddog” Hall's Beachhead   Ode to Joy  
  
• Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Embedded at the Edge  
  
• Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   The GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 Debate  
  

Review

• Have Laptop Will Travel—the LS1250 Laptop from R Cubed Technologies  by James Gray
  

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