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Highlights:
Advances in the web realm are creating a more vital, dynamic, and secure Internet. This month, we take you on a tour of the new HTML 5 standard. We also get you online with the Drupal CMS, show you an innovative, client-side database, and describe a tool for testing your websites.
This jam-packed issue includes:
News: The Linux Foundation announces the Open Compliance Program; Eclipse SDK 4.0 Released; Interview with Chris DiBona, open source and public manager for Google; Openstack Code Released; Gnome 3 Delayed
Tech Tools
Letter from the Editor
Drupal: Simplify site management and build in new features with the Drupal CMS and its many add-on modules.
PublicSQL: A web-ready SQL database that runs on the client.
HTML 5: The new HTML 5 standard embraces dynamic content, multimedia, and semantic processing.
PAC: The Perl Auto Connector helps admins manage large numbers of remote servers.
C/C++ Interpreters: Kick-start your projects with the C/C++ interpreters Tcc, PicoC, EiC, and CINT.
Charly: My Traceroute -- Ping the virtual world.
Security Lessons: Secure wireless on the cheap.
Perl: Pidgin Stock Alerts
eMount: Let eMount help you manage your encrypted partitions.
Ask Klaus! Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions.
Command Line: Create PDFs from the command line with a2ps, Ghostscript, and ps2pdf.
Org-Mode: An Emacs extension with your best interests at heart.
Workspace: iKog and Taskwarrior -- productivity tools for the terminal window.
Barebones CMS: Build a website fast with this lightweight content management system.
Cache: LinuxCon 2010
Dog House: A discriminating taste in cloud services
Kernel News
KDE Akademy: Tampere, Finland, welcomed the KDE developer conference.
Projects on the Move: Collaborative writing with Etherpad; VoIP with Mumble.
Surrounded by majestic countryside, members of the KDE community met in Tampere, Finland. Sponsored by Intel and Nokia, this conference was all about the bright future of KDE and Qt.
Authors and editors can use EtherPad to edit a column online in real time. Then, anything they can’t handle in writing, they can discuss in detail by launching Mumble.
White chalk cliffs, a beautiful countryside, pretty villages and plenty of fine pubs gather along the South Downs Way in Sussex, England - an ideal location for the annual Linux Beer Hike.
