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Hello, readers. This is the Linux newsletter, a weekly mailing designed to
improve your reading and technology skills simultaneously. (You can tell
because it only abbrevs the long words.) Here's what's new in the world
of the O'Reilly Network related to free and open source software.

Ahh, x86--your noble lineage traces back to 1981 and earlier, when the
boot process was long and laborious and hardware was...well, primitive.
In the past quarter century, have things improved? Not really, but a new
specification called MultiBoot threatens to make managing the boot process
much easier. Julio M. Merino Vidal recently made the NetBSD kernel
MultiBoot compatible, and he explains why this is important and how it happened:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html

If you've ever compared your game scores against everyone else's, you've
likely used a rank table. If that rank table continually receives
updates, ranks can change at any time--and try to calculate that
efficiently. Baron Schwartz demonstrates one place for a slight
denormalization that can dramatically affect performance and behavior:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2007/03/01/optimize-mysql-rank-data.html

Perl 6 is on its way (try it now at http://run.pugscode.org/). Why should
you care? It has powerful--and usable--new features to improve your
coding clarity and flexibility. For example, the...simplicity...of
argument passing in Perl 5 is still around, but Perl 6 has powerful new
abilities to handle default values, multi-dispatch, currying, and more.
Phil Crow shows exactly how little code (and how clear it is) he needs to
tackle an example program:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/03/01/perl-6-parameter-passing.html

What's the difference between XML and HTML? If you can't immediately answer
that question, think of how much difficulty a poor dumb computer has! Instead
of writing your own heuristics, use Michael Day's set of rules, available
in "What Does XML Smell Like?"

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/02/28/what-does-xml-smell-like.html

In weblogs this week, your editor praises the SVK version control system:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/thank_you_svk.html

...and praises the idea of improving software installation further:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/software_updates_for_home_user.html

Justin Troutman announces his intent to discuss a cryptovirus:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/mackerel_an_indcca2_and_intctx.html

Nitesh Dhanjani outlines the risks of using Google Desktop:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/overtaking_google_desktop.html

Ann Barcomb summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_25.html

Matt Asay analyzes Microsoft's hiring its way into open source:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/microsoft_hiring_its_way_into.html

...and suggests that Microsoft could help fix the patent system, too:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/we_are_all_victims_of_the_pate.htmil

brian d foy graphs Perl's CPAN:

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

Jeremy Jones compares a task in Python and C#:

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

Andy Oram asks how the Dow computer systems handled a recent hiccup:

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

Juliet Kemp gets her SunBlade 100 running Linux:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/sunblade_100_and_linux_again.html

Caitlyn Martin praises the responsiveness of open source developers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_open_source_developers_s.html

Curt Hibbs summarizes Ruby IDEs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/ides_for_ruby.html

Jim Alateras looks briefly at e-texteditor for Windows:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/looking_for_a_new_rails_ide_fo_1.html

Anton Chuvakin has fun with five mistakes of data encryption:

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

Brian K. Jones retires his personal analog assistant:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/03/time_management_tools_for_the.html

Tim O'Reilly reviews book sales data to revive the classic programming language wars:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/programming_lan.html

...and summarizes a discussion of concurrent programming in Erlang,
Haskell, and XSLT:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/concurrent_prog_1.html

Jimmy Guterman announces Release 2.0:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/welcome_to_rele_1.html

Allison Randal rediscusses the open source company-label question:

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

Nat Torkington follows up on his dropped bomb about the same issue:

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

That wraps it up for the week. What happens next time? Python!

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chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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