[cover122.png] Linux Journal Issue #122/June 2004 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Features Simulators for Training Firefighters by Douglas Maxwell Fewer real fires means we need more fake fires for training. Behind the scenes at a Navy/New York Fire Department simulator. Hacking Democracy by Doc Searls LAMP sites at US presidential campaigns offer lessons for your local politics too. An Open-Source System for Electronic Court Filing by Jim Beard Can the 17,500 courts in the US agree on a common electronic filing system? Good news from the standards front. Indepth GNU Radio: Tools for Exploring the Radio Frequency Spectrum by Eric Blossom Listen to ham, shortwave, AM and FM, and even watch HDTV and invent new communications modes, all on the same hardware. The Linux Soundfile Editor Roundup by Dave Phillips If you want to give your games, desktop apps and answering machine an audible personality, you'll need one of these tools. Embedded Driving Me Nuts by Greg Kroah-Hartman Toolbox At the Forge XOOPS by Reuven M. Lerner Kernel Korner udev--Persistent Device Naming in User Space by Greg Kroah-Hartman Cooking with Linux When Democracy Becomes Crazy! by Marcel Gagné Paranoid Penguin Using Yum for RPM Updates by Mick Bauer Columns EOF Free Software Licenses by Maureen O'Sullivan Reviews Xandros Desktop Deluxe 2.0 by Dean Staff Departments From the Editor Letters upFRONT On The Web Best of Technical Support New Products Advertisers Index