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Good morrow, gentles. Prithee, doest thou require news of the day, of that
most wonderful of operating systems which doth bear the sign of the
flightless Antarctic bird? Wouldst thou know what hath transpired for yon
these seven days, of the written comments of our most insightful bloggers?
Then hearken, for this be your weekly Linux Newsletter.

First off, news so big I can't leave it 'til the end of the newsletter.
You've heard about it, you've gotten sick of me promising it would be
coming Any Time Now. And now, it is here, a day you will want to remember
so that you can tell your grandchildren about it. Yes, ring the church
bells and let the doves fly, the comic strip has launched!

Ok, maybe it's not world peace, but it is a new weekly webcomic that we
hope will at least mildly entertain you (this, I'm told, is called
lowering expectations...) Check out the first episode of "The Watering
Hole," titled "The Savannas of Sebastopol." If you don't find it
enjoyable, simple returned the unused portion for a full refund. New
strips every Thursday!

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Meanwhile, despite this earth-shaking news, life proceeded apace on the
ONLamp Family of Web sites (OFOW). Two new articles this week, the first
of which is Federico Biancuzzi's latest pre-released OpenBSD interview, a
series he's well know for. This time around, it's the 4.1 release
approaching, and Frederico made sure to ask all the right questions of all
the right developers.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html

Zachary Kessin took a more reflective attitude, at least as far as PHP
goes. His article, "Code As Data: Reflection in PHP," shows how you can
use the relatively new reflection functionality in PHP to, among other
things, produce automated unit tests.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/04/26/code-as-data-reflection-in-php.html

In blog-land, O'Reilly editor Andy Oram is looking for some people who
have prepared and filed actual patent applications.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/patent_applicationswhat_are_th.html

chromatic suggested that it's time to break the perceived connection
between math and computer science, a position I've held for a long time.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/i_just_want_to_program_dont_ma.html

Short but sweet, Jonathan Wellons ponders a trend he's seen, geeks working
out. Is the skinny, pasty-faced developer a thing of the past?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/pumping_iron_is_the_new_rails.html

Dave Cross reports that free Perl training will be available in London on
June 2nd.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/free_perl_training_in_london.html

chromatic returns to talk about the idea of replacing abstract base
classes in Python with traits and roles.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/traitsroles_in_python_3000.html

Over in DevCenter, Caitlyn Martin mentions rx320, a package for Linux that
lets you tune a shortwave radio.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/a_pc_shortwave_radio_and_linux.html

Juliet Kemp offers some pointers on what can go wrong with Linux sound,
and how to fix it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/sound_problems.html

chromatic, the man of a thousand blogs, questions the wisdom of porting
Microsoft's Silverlight to Linux.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/appeasement_is_a_type_of_strat.html

Finally, Brian K. Jones takes some time to consider why books targeted at
system administrators may be on the way out. His idea? Sysadmins are
becoming coders.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/sys_admins_books_and_trending.html

In the coming week, we have the following articles coming up. Gregory
Brown will complete his two-part tour of the Rails persistence layer,
"Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails."
George Belotsky will be "Rethinking the Linux Distribution," and Bill
Lubanovic will show us how to doll up an application in "A Web Makeover
with jQuery."

Until then, enjoy the spring while it lasts, and did I mention we have a
new comic strip?

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com

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