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Welcome to the Linux Newsletter. Your editor hasn't explained yet this
year that "Linux" stands for all sorts of free, libre, and open source
goodness. Here's what the O'Reilly Network covered this week.

Rumor has it that free and open source software made the Internet
possible. Does the current shape of the Internet still fit this belief?
MailChannels recently surveyed as many public mail servers as it could
find to discover the type and version of software they run. Ken Simpson
and Stas Bekman provide a look into SMTP as well as the fascinating results:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html

In the two years since its public unveiling, Ruby on Rails has created a
new category of its own. The software hasn't stood still, either. Bill
Walton and Curt Hibbs have finished revising Curt's seminal Ruby on Rails
tutorial; this week, part two of Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited
demonstrates how easy it still is (perhaps even easier) to start using
Ruby on Rails to build new database-backed web sites:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/01/05/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited-2.html

In weblogs this week, Nitesh Dhanjani discussed the Adobe Acrobat
JavaScript security bug:

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

brian d foy finally announces the Learning Perl Study Guide:

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

Jonathan Wellons summons shell users by asking for the contents of their
Bash history files:

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

Tom Adelstein reveals that he's finally finished "Linux System Administration":

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

Your editor finds a nice reminder of what all free software developers
have in common:

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

Juliet Kemp links to a Vi on Solaris cursor key fix:

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

Caitlyn Martin revisits Linux on Atticware laptops:

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

... and reviews Vector Linux:

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

Todd Ogasawara summarizes more free and open source software for Windows:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/freewareopen_source_for_window_6.html

Gregory Brown explores Ruby's Camping framework:

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

Curt Hibbs congratulates TIOBE's programming language of the year:

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

Derek Sivers and CD Baby sponsor 20 developers to attend RailsConf 2007:

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

Anton Chuvakin dissects log entries from a defaced website:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/01/on_zoneh_defacement_story_log.html

Tim O'Reilly starts a debate on the features of Programming 2.0:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/programming_20.html

... and considers Asterisk an underappreciated F/OSS success:

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

Brady Forrest points to video from Ignite Seattle:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/ignite_seattle_2.html

Next week: the future of DNS and a look at a hackable Linux
network appliance.

Considering GPS32X game programming,
- c

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

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Web 2.0 Audio and Video Podcasts

Listen in to what some of the internet industry's leading thinkers and
innovators have to say about the future of Web 2.0. Podcasts and
screencasts of select Web 2.0 Summit presentations will be updated weekly.
This week: A Conversation with Bruce Chizen.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2007/01/03/web-20-chizen.html

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