Features

• DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre  by Robin Rowe
  What can you do with Linux and 20 million CPU render hours?
  
• Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine  by Anthony Kay
  If you really need OCR.
  
• Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape  by Marco Fioretti
  Want scalable beauty?
  
• Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger, Creator of Pixel  by James Gray
  Photoshop comes to Linux, sort of.
  

Indepth

• Automated GIMP Processing of Web Images  by Ben Martin
  Program GIMP to work for you.
  
• Writing Your Own Image Gallery Application with the UNIX Shell  by Girish Venkatachalam
  GUI? We don't need no stinking GUI.
  
• Programming Python, Part II  by José P. E. "Pupeno" Fernàndez
  More love for learning Python.
  
• Image Processing with QccPack and Python  by Suhas Desai
  A library collection for Python image processing.
  
• Mambo Exploit Blocked by SELinux  by Richard Bullington-McGuire
  SELinux catches exploits.
  
• Role-Based Single Sign-on with Perl and Ruby  by Robb Shecter
  Let the role dictate the privileges.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   First Steps with Django  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Let Me Show You How It's Done with a Little Video  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part IV  
  
• Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Beyond Blogging's Black Holes  
  
• Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   Amazing Free Distributions Abound  
  

Quick Takes

• Deep Images  by Dan Sawyer
  

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