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Hello, Linux newsletter subscribers. Prepare yourself for yet another
rapid-fire tour of the new goodness in the world of ONLamp.com and the
Linux DevCenter.

Managing disk space seems like a thankless, dull job--people love to
create and store more and more data, hardware always improves, and
hardware always eventually dies. Managing mount points and migrating
shares and rebuilding arrays are just too much work. When Bryce
Harrington and Kees Cook said, "We like this LVM stuff" your editor paid
attention. They've written "Managing Disk Space with LVM" to demonstrate
how building your partitions atop Linux's logical volume manager (an
abstraction above physical disks) makes upgrading and migration much, much
easier. Your editor might even manage disks sometime:

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html>

Right on schedule, the OpenBSD team released the latest world-changing
release: 3.9. The image for this release is blob-busting. That is,
OpenBSD stands on its principles never to ship big, useless, unfree
binary-only blobs to make drivers work. Federico Biancuzzi recently
interviewed several OpenBSD developers about this philosophy in practice,
as well as new features, and upcoming plans:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/27/openbsd-3_9.html>

In weblogs this week (and have you noticed that the weblog icon comes from
your editor's first book?), your editor continued his series on
refactoring a large web application:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_10.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_11.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_12.html>

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Guillaume Cottenceau, creator of Frozen Bubble:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/people_of_perl_guillaume_cottenceau.html>

Jeremy Jones pledged allegiance to a diverse use of technology:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/i_pledge_allegiance.html>

Brian Jones recommends not forgetting the database when designing a
PHP application:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/designing_a_databasedriven_php.html>

Google's Summer of Code 2006 started accepting student applications:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/05/summer_of_code_2006_opens_for.html>

Carla Schroder installed some SATA drives to help with her digital editing
in Linux:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/04/digital_editing_in_linux_sata.html>

Lyz Krumbach announced the formation of the Ubuntu-Women group:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/04/ubuntuwomenorg_launched_1.html>

Tim O'Reilly queried several Web 2.0-related companies about their use
of databases:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2006/04/database_war_stories.html>

Tom Adelstein yet again took employers to task for horrible, awful, very
bad, no good job descriptions:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/04/employers_get_a_grip_on_your_j.html>

Steve Mallett found a nice Japanese translation of Rolling with Ruby on
Rails, Part 2:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/japanese_translation_of_rollin.html>

Pat Eyler admits an addiction to watching Ruby and other projects fix
their Coverity-revealed defects:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/addicted_to_coverity_1.html>

The conferences team kept the MySQL Users Conference weblog up to date:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/mysql_users_conference/>

This includes presentation files:

<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/45/presentations.html>

... as well as James Duncan Davidson's official photographs:

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72057594112748158>

Upcoming article topics include natural language programming languages,
bots, and how to use C++ without sanity rolls.

Until then,
- c

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

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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week

1. Managing Disk Space with LVM
Linux's Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows you to create virtual disk
partitions out of one or more hard drives. This makes it easy to manage
growth in filesystems. Combined with RAID, it provides a nearly unbeatable
way to keep your files safe and available. Bryce Harrington and Kees Cook
show how to configure LVM, how to combine it with RAID, and how to use it
on desktop machines too.

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html>

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2. OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed
Every six months, the OpenBSD team releases a new version of their OS.
OpenBSD 3.9 is here. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed the core
developers about new features and improvements, as well as their
principled stand against shipping binary-only blobs in place of actual
drivers.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/27/openbsd-3_9.html>

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3. Clever Tricks with MythTV
Building your own personal video recorder means that you can avoid
manufacturer- or broadcaster-enforced restrictions. That's not all,
though. John Littler presents some clever ideas on what you can accomplish
with a MythTV box, some free time, and a little work.

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/mythtv_hacks.html>

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4. New Vulnerability in OpenSSH
A new vulnerability in OpenSSH can be exploited by a local attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the root user. Noel Davis
also covers problems in OpenBSD, wmtv, Auto Nice Daemon, NetDynamics,
Xitami Web server, libgtop_daemon, xtel, Lotus Domino, OpenServer's
setcontext and sysi86, SuSE's Postfix installation, and fml.

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/12/10/insecurities.html>

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5. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>

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