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Hello, readers. This Linux newsletter is late, mostly because your editor
found himself on the other side of the country in balmy single-degree weather.
While he's trying to type in gloves between sneezes, here's what's new in the
world of free and open source software.

The high quality, extensive portability, and low cost of developing devices
with an embedded Linux kernel and runtime means that there are more of these
devices around. An excellent example is the Fritzbox, an all-in-one home
network device popular in Europe. It offers DSL and VoIP, and it's also very
hackable. Guylhem Aznar dissects one of these devices to replace a huge mess
on his home network:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2007/01/11/fritzbox.html

DNS may seem like an old topic, but it's still vital and there's invention
going on around the edges. Cricket Liu surveys the state of five DNS
extensions--the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), IPv6 support, Internationalized
Domain Names, ENUM, and the DNS Security Extensions. What's new? What's
seeing progress? What has stalled? Here's the state of DNS as of early
2007:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/01/11/dns-extensions.html

For everyone who does LAMP development on Windows, installing dependencies can
be a source of immense pain. This is true even for dynamic languages.
ActiveState's ActivePerl has a useful solution: the noble PPM. Josh
Stroschein shows off what he learned about using and installing PPMs as well as
maintaining his repository. All other languages... remain jealous:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/01/11/painless-ppm.html

In weblogs this week, Jeremy Jones announced the release of Twisted
2.5.0:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/twisted_250_released.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_19.html

Curt Hibbs found surprising the scope and appearance of Ruby on Rails training:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/ruby_on_rails_training_off_the.html

Allison Randal built the open source Second Life client on Mac OS X and Ubuntu
GNU/Linux:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/building_second.html

Brady Forrest summarized the functional requirements for Firefox 3.0:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/firefox_30_requ.html

Tim O'Reilly linked to his IBM DeveloperWorks interview discussing the business
of O'Reilly (do you know our motto?):

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/developerworks.html

That sums up another week. Next week: firewall-side greylisting with OS
fingerprinting and thinking about simplifying programming in a world of small
devices.

Until then,
- c

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

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