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Hello, readers. This is the Linux Newsletter, a weekly plea for you to drop
everything to lend your valuable eyeballs to the Free and Open Source Software
side of the O'Reilly Network. Here's the candy.

Apache httpd is powerful and popular (and very well documented), but certain
features are still black magic, especially when things go wrong. Consider two
words: Rewrite Rules. When you've climbed back down from the ceiling, let Rich
Bowen show you how to enable debugging logs to help pinpoint problems:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/02/02/apache-debugging-logs.html

Before there were huge, overarching, heavyweight frameworks and Very Serious
Templating packages, there was Perl's minimal but useful HTML::Template.
Though you may think you need a Very Serious Framework for every project, you
likely have plenty of projects that can benefit from a simpler, lighter
approach. Philipp K. Janert shows how to achieve more powerful reuse in the
second part of an advanced H::T series:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/02/02/htmltemplate-widgets.html

There are lots of reasons why hardware vendors might not be able to produce
drivers or specifications for free and open source operating systems. Only a
few hold up, though. What if the real reasons are the same problems that FOSS
developers face? Could there be common ground?

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/what_if_hardware_vendors_are_t.html

By the way, the Conferences group announced one new conference, and registration
for two others. Ubuntu Live will take place in Portland, Oregon concurrently
at OSCON:

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2007/01/introducing_ubuntu_live.html

The MySQL Conference and Expo is open:

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2007/01/mysql_conference_expo_registra.html

RailsConf 2007 is also open for registration:

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2007/02/railsconf_2007_registration_is.html

In weblogs this week, Robert Cooper takes up the gauntlet to debate static
typing again:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/fear_and_loathing_in_typeland.html

Your editor thanks the Xfce contributors for great software:

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

... and found that London has a shortage of Perl programmers:

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

Matt Asay takes on Microsoft's paid and buried competitive research on Linux:

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

Todd Ogasawara promoted an open source readiness kit for Windows Vista:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/getting_your_open_source_appli_1.html

Juliet Kemp dug into bash customization and gave some of her top tricks:

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

Caitlyn Martin demonstrated adding a background image to a very basic window
manager:

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

Derek Sivers announced the winners of the 2007 CD Baby Hackfest:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/railsconf_2007_cd_baby_hackfes.html

Tim O'Reilly promised that he's not out of his mind in your spam folder:

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

... and asked entrepreneurs "Big and Global or Small and Local?":

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

Marc Hedlund found the volunteer hunt for Jim Gray fascinating:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/the_hunt_for_ji_1.html

Brady Forrest explained Technorati's WTF:

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

Next week: logfiles in 3D.

Glorious technicolor,
- c

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

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