Issue #104 / Jul 2009

Front End Drupal offers Drupal users, from the complete novice to experienced designers, a focused approach to site design, behavior, usability, and management, with a special emphasis on Drupal theming and interactive design. Includes several examples from start to end.

A netbook and a good ebook reader are all you need to mine the wealth of free ebooks glimmering from the depths of the web.

Mozilla Weave for Firefox synchronizes your critical browsing information between multiple machines.

Bootchart analyzes the boot process and tells you where the system is wasting time.

OpenOffice has always been able to export PDF documents. Version 3.0 is the first to introduce an extension that lets you import and edit PDFs.

Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of the LinuxTag expo. He currently works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: klaus@linux-magazine.com

Charly's candidate today is the HAProxy load balancer, which not only distributes the load between servers, but also helps admins overcome their fears of lengthy configuration files.

Moving data to and from Linux systems under the radar.

Munin collects information and plots parameters of your choice automatically and with minimal configuration. But if you can't find a plugin that captures the data you want to graph, you might have to roll your own.