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Greetings, everyone. You're reading the weekly Linux newsletter, which
brings you news and information related to the world of free and open
source software as seen on the O'Reilly Network. It's a big area to
cover, but we do our best. Here's what you should know this week.

One of the recurring arguments in the programming and administration
worlds is over which text editor to use. The big two are obviously vi and
Emacs, but there are plenty of graphical and console utilities for
everyone. Matthew Russell has provided a gentle introduction to the hows
and whys of Vim for people who've tried and failed to understand it, as
well as people who've never used it:

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/11/vim-is-easier-than-you-think.html>

Matthew also posted a followup explaining the all-powerful Vim macro:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/07/more_vim_save_time_with_macros_1.html>

Dru Lavigne's well-loved FreeBSD Basics column returned this week with
something for desktop users: DesktopBSD. DesktopBSD is a fully packaged,
user-friendly, easily installable distribution of FreeBSD suitable for
user desktops. This time, Dru demonstrates how to install and configure
the system for comfort and productivity:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/07/13/FreeBSDBasics.html>

If your data is important, what are you doing to protect it? Backing up a
database used only 9-5 on weekdays is easy; stay late one night. Backing
up a whole cluster of databases used 24/7/365 is more difficult. It's no
happy coincidence that LAMP provides plenty of good solutions for
protecting valuable MySQL and PostgreSQL data; Paddy Sreenivasan explains
"Data Protection for LAMP Applications:"

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/07/13/lamp-data-protection.html>

In weblogs this week, your editor reported on The Perl Foundation
president Bill Odom's plans for the state of Perl and TPF:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/bill_odom_and_the_state_of_the.html>

Jeremy Jones solved his Flash/Ubuntu audio problems:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/audio_problem_from_flash_video.html>

Jeremy also expanded on an interview with Django's Adrian Holovaty on the
subject of tight framework integration:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/django_gets_the_big_picture.html>

Gregory Brown explained Ruby's inject method to newcomers:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/nubygems_inject_is_functional.html>

Caleb Tennis recommended highly the Pragmatic Ruby Studio:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/a_studio_just_for_ruby.html>

Pat Eyler interviewed the JRuby developers:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/interviewing_the_jruby_develop.html>

Brian Jones was very happy to discover the Fedora Directory Server over
plain old OpenLDAP:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/07/a_new_favorite_fedora_director.html>

Caitlyn Martin argued that fully licensed DVD player software is a huge
key to Linux on the average desktop. Readers weren't so sure:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/07/a_fully_licensed_dmca_complian.html>

Don't forget, OSCON is now only one week away. Things will be busy here,
so check back on ONLamp.com and the conferences page for a deluge of data.

Now knows the difference between buffered and unbuffered RAM,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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