Features

• LAMP Development at Public Sector Web Sites  by Tom Adelstein
  Government IT staff and open-source consultants are keeping public information open and accessible—and saving tax money too.
  
• The REDACLE Work-Flow Management System  by Giovanni Organtini and Luciano M. Barone
  To build a product with 500,000 parts, you need an enterprise-class work-flow management system.
  
• Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment  by John Buckman
  Even if you're not reinventing the music business, what can you do to help your Web site help customers?
  
• DIY-IT: How Linux and Open Source Are Bringing Do-It-Yourself to Information Technology  by Doc Searls
  A new balance of power in the IT market is giving customers control of their own information destinies.
  

Indepth

• Improving Perl Application Performance  by Bruce W. Lowther
  Get the most performance improvement for the least work.
  
• Asterisk Open-Source PBX System  by Brett Schwarz
  Integrate land lines and VoIP on your company phone system.
  
• A Guided Tour of Ethereal  by Brad Hards
  Troubleshoot your network and check security.
  
• LinuxBIOS at Four  by Ronald G. Minnich
  Will your favorite OS be your new favorite BIOS too?
  

Embedded

• Driving Me Nuts I2C Drivers, Part II  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
  

Toolbox

• Kernel Korner   I/O Schedulers  by Robert Love
  
• Cooking with Linux   The Customer Is Always Served  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Seven Top Security Tools  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• EOF   Linux vs. SCO—A Foregone Conclusion  by Jim Ready
  

Reviews

• AstroFlowGuard Appliance  by Jose Nazario
  
• UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Theory  by Ibrahim Haddad
  

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