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Hello, readers. This is the weekly Linux Newsletter, which occasionally
discusses Linux (the kernel) itself and usually discusses software developed
and distributed under terms similar to Linux (the kernel) itself. Pedantry
aside, here's what's new in the F/OSS world.

The nice thing about best practices is that there are so many to choose from.
Take, for example, firewalls. Hardware? Software? Which one? Chris Swartz
and Randy Rosel recently developed a series of tests for evaluating the
effectiveness of competing firewall products. Now they present their method in
a way that you can duplicate with the products or projects you want to consider:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/02/15/evaluating_firewalls.html

Rewiring your house for ubiquitous wired networking isn't always feasible (and
much less so if you have an apartment). Wireless isn't always the answer
either. Odds are, though, that you do already have wires almost everywhere you want to
go--electrical wires. Xavier Carcelle provides an introduction to power line communications:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2007/02/15/an-introduction-to-power-line-communications.html

In weblogs this week, Todd Ogasawara ponders the idea that open-sourcing code
gives companies a free pass for anti-competitive behavior:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/open_source_community_or_indus.html

Dave Cross notices that there are now two places to post Perl jobs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/perl_jobs_1.html

Jeremy Jones finds this week's PyCon schedule frustrating:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/pycon_2007_frustrations.html

Matt Asay considers out-of-the-U.S. competition more dangerous to
Microsoft than that in the U.S.:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/can_50000_brazilians_be_wrong.html

Your author praises ccache:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/thank_you_ccache.html

...and wonders if driver development NDAs are a short-term-only solution:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/02/ndad_drivers_dont_make_everyon.html

M. David Peterson uses XSLT to optimize his Linux distribution and kicks off a
command-line festival:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/02/using_xslt_20_to_optimize_linu.html

Juliet Kemp drives dual-head monitors on Debian:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/02/nvidia_twinview_and_xorgconf.html

pat eyler announces the Mountain West Ruby Conference:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/02/mountainwest_rubyconf_2007.html

Curt Hibbs links to Antonio Cangiano's Ruby Implementations Shootout:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/02/fascinating_ruby_implementatio.html

Brian K. Jones discusses the CLI shell-quoting conundrum:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/shell_quoting_conundrum.html

...and resolves to fight job specialization:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/fighting_specialization.html

Anton Chuvakin's security tip of the week is to ask "What Just Changed?":

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/anton_security_tip_of_the_week_3.html

Luke A. Kanies responds to his critique of the lack of evolution in system
administration:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/fallout_from_the_evolution_pos.html

The Radar team discusses a wait-free fast hash table:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/a_fast_waitfree_1.html

Tim O'Reilly links to a profile of Bernie Krause, who works on ecological soundscapes:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/biophony_ecolog_1.html

Brady Forrest catches AOL's announcement of supporting OpenID:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/aol_supports_op.html

Surj Patel has another child and asks where the 8-bit revolution is for them:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/wheres_the_8_bi.html

Tim O'Reilly highlights a WSJ piece on the new class of tastemakers who filter
information for others:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/wsj_and_ifbook.html

Next week--how not to get help from that F/OSS project.

Enjoy,
- c

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

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