Features

Power Up Your E-Mail with Mutt  by Victor Gregorio

See how Mutt's text-based display outperforms the rest.

Nginx: the High-Performance Web Server and Reverse Proxy  by Will Reese

A leaner, meaner Apache.

djbdns: More Than Just a Mouthful of Consonants  by Cory Wright

Upgrade from BIND to djbdns.

Xtreme Illustrations  by Dan Sawyer

Check out Xara Extreme, a Linux-compatible alternative to Inkscape.

Take a Ride on the Gentoo Train  by Mike Diehl

Gentoo, power and flexibility, but not for the faint of heart.

Indepth

The Story of Firefox: from Underdog to Superhero  by James Gray

The fascinating story of how Firefox went from underdog to top-dog browser.

State of the Art: Linux Audio 2008  by Dave Phillips

How does Linux sound these days? Dave Phillips gets his groove on in Part I of his survey of Linux audio capabilities.

Columns

Shawn Powers' Current_Issue.tar.gz  When Underdogs Take Over the World  

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Shoehorning Data into a Database  

Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Browsers with the Speed of Lightning  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Spreading Out Numbers  

Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Secured Remote Desktop/Application Sessions  

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Do the Splits  

Doc Searls' EOF   What Happens after Next February?  

Review

Simplifying Backups with Zmanda Recovery Manager  by Alolita Sharma

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