Write for Us: General Topics

 

Below are some topics we're interested in that do not fit the focus of any particular issue. Thus, a specific due date is not attached to articles on these topics.

We welcome your suggestions; write ljeditor@linuxjournal.com.

Cutting Edge

  • Show how to convert automatically an OpenOffice.org or Gnumeric spreadsheet to an easily deployable Web application in ECMAScript and/or PHP.
  • Mesh Routing
  • Linux and X support for a "digital whiteboard", such as the one from mimio.com.
  • Developing applications for Linux-based mobile phones using freely available tools.
  • NIB conversion for porting between GNUStep and Mac OS X without manually re-creating the user interface.
  • Success stories about deploying free desktop applications on Linux, including but not limited to OpenOffice, Mozilla and Evolution.
  • Tracking performance bottlenecks: how can you use simple test programs and response time histograms to find bottlenecks?
  • Linux in Implantable Medical Devices
  • Converting media files such as Real Video to an openly documented format,
  • P2P platforms and applications
  • WiFi
  • Internet radio and/or television, streaming audio and/or video
  • VoIP
  • Previews of upcoming Linux projects

Multimedia

  • Open-source 3-D applications
  • Using patent-free audio/video codecs
  • Linux as a recording studio solution (hard disk recorders, effects, sound editing)

Hardware

  • Hardware compatibility
  • Compatible hardware for the 64-bit desktop

Linux Means Business

  • Education software for Linux
  • Office applications; tuning Linux applications (free or proprietary) for use in the office.
  • Vertical applications of Linux; Linux can be deployed usefully in the vertical marketplace. We'd like to see articles about how Linux has been used to solve vertical problems, as well as reviews of vertical solutions available for Linux.
  • Single sign-on and the corporate directory
  • Enterprise software development success stories
  • Groupware for Linux

Miscellaneous

 

Networking

  • Network-centric computing; applications servers, etc.
  • Do you run a database on a Beowulf? We're interested in cluster applications, especially groundbreaking non-scientific, non-rendering tasks.
  • Community networks; 802.11b links

Novice

  • How to use your distribution's security mailing list and package management tool to stay current on security updates.
  • Simple tools for blocking Internet annoyances such as pop-ups and spam
  • Beginner articles; in a very general sense, we are always looking for articles that would appeal to the absolute Linux beginner.
  • Common novice questions and answers. This is not a normal FAQ; we particularly want questions that novices ask in the first week or so of using Linux. We will help provide answers that are aimed at the true novice user.

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From the Magazine

November 2008, #175

There aren't many numbers that put the US national debt to shame, but here's one: 1,100,000,000,000,000. What's that? That's how many floating-point operations per second the Roadrunner supercomputer at Las Alamos can perform. That's about 100 FLOPS per dollar of US debt (unfortunately, the debt is winning the second derivative race). Read the article about Roadrunner in this month's High Performance Computing issue of LJ.

Along with that, find out how to program the Cell processor and how to use CUDA with your NVIDIA GPU. Also in this issue: Mr HandS (aka Kyle Rankin) gives us a few tips on using Compiz, Chef Marcel shows you how to get blogging off your plate quicker, Mick Bauer talks about Samba security, Dan Sawyer interviews Cory Doctrow and Doc talks about how information technology can affect democracy and fix the national debt (just kidding about that last part). That and more for your reading pleasure in this month's Linux Journal.

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