Issue 53: April 2005

Comment: To the test Software News: Software News Business News: Business News Linux World News: Linux world news Kernel News: zack's Kernel News Insecurity News: Insecurity News Linux Magazine DVD: Linux Magazine DVD Letters: Write access Cover Story: Movies and Music - Practical Multimedia Techniques in Linux Cover Story: Title Tool - Generating Video Titles with MainActor Cover Story: Cut and Toast - DVD Authoring on Linux Cover Story: Handyman - Converting and Processing Video Files with Transcode Cover Story: Audio Crossover - Playing VST Audio Plugins in Linux Reviews: Book Reviews Reviews: New Desktop - A Look at Xandros Desktop 3.0 Know-how: Hot Wired - Hotplugging with Udev, HAL, and D-Bus Know-how: Donkey Business - File sharing with MLDonkey and KMLDonkey Know-how: Nicely Sorted - Managing databases on KDE Sysadmin: Target Practice - The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: Rsnapshot Sysadmin: Streaming AHEAD - MP3 and MPEG-4 with the Darwin Streaming Server Sysadmin: Name Tracer - Insider Tips: Identd with Linux-based Servers Programming: Mass Production - Creating Basic Macros in OpenOffice Programming: The Bottom Line - An Extensible Viewer for your Personal Finances LinuxUser: Language Lessons - Learning Vocabulary with KVocTrain LinuxUser: Background View - deskTOPia: The hsetroot and Esetroot Background Tools LinuxUser: One for All - Exploring the Gentoo File Manager LinuxUser: Gamer - Re-animating classic games with ScummVM LinuxUser: The Translator - Using tr and dos2unix Community: Projects on the Move - Free Software and its Makers Community: Brave GNU World - The Monthly GNU Column

Cover Theme: Multimedia DVD: Ubuntu 5.04 ‘Hoary Hedgehog’ DVD Inlay