Write for Us: General Topics

 

Below are some topics we're interested in that do not fit the focus of any particular issue. Thus, a specific due date is not attached to articles on these topics.

We welcome your suggestions; write ljeditor@linuxjournal.com.

Cutting Edge

  • Show how to convert automatically an OpenOffice.org or Gnumeric spreadsheet to an easily deployable Web application in ECMAScript and/or PHP.
  • Mesh Routing
  • Linux and X support for a "digital whiteboard", such as the one from mimio.com.
  • Developing applications for Linux-based mobile phones using freely available tools.
  • NIB conversion for porting between GNUStep and Mac OS X without manually re-creating the user interface.
  • Success stories about deploying free desktop applications on Linux, including but not limited to OpenOffice, Mozilla and Evolution.
  • Tracking performance bottlenecks: how can you use simple test programs and response time histograms to find bottlenecks?
  • Linux in Implantable Medical Devices
  • Converting media files such as Real Video to an openly documented format,
  • P2P platforms and applications
  • WiFi
  • Internet radio and/or television, streaming audio and/or video
  • VoIP
  • Previews of upcoming Linux projects

Multimedia

  • Open-source 3-D applications
  • Using patent-free audio/video codecs
  • Linux as a recording studio solution (hard disk recorders, effects, sound editing)

Hardware

  • Hardware compatibility
  • Compatible hardware for the 64-bit desktop

Linux Means Business

  • Education software for Linux
  • Office applications; tuning Linux applications (free or proprietary) for use in the office.
  • Vertical applications of Linux; Linux can be deployed usefully in the vertical marketplace. We'd like to see articles about how Linux has been used to solve vertical problems, as well as reviews of vertical solutions available for Linux.
  • Single sign-on and the corporate directory
  • Enterprise software development success stories
  • Groupware for Linux

Miscellaneous

 

Networking

  • Network-centric computing; applications servers, etc.
  • Do you run a database on a Beowulf? We're interested in cluster applications, especially groundbreaking non-scientific, non-rendering tasks.
  • Community networks; 802.11b links

Novice

  • How to use your distribution's security mailing list and package management tool to stay current on security updates.
  • Simple tools for blocking Internet annoyances such as pop-ups and spam
  • Beginner articles; in a very general sense, we are always looking for articles that would appeal to the absolute Linux beginner.
  • Common novice questions and answers. This is not a normal FAQ; we particularly want questions that novices ask in the first week or so of using Linux. We will help provide answers that are aimed at the true novice user.

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From the Magazine

September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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