Linux Journal Contents #196, August 2010
on August 1, 2010
Linux Journal Issue #196/August 2010
Just in time for the long hot days of summer: Cool Projects. And since we're talking about the weather let's start with wview, which let's you hook up a weather station to your Linux system. OpenWRT is a perennial favorite for Cool Projects, find out how to build your own custom images, even include a media player if you like. Got an old fridge, find out how to make some Linux "fridge" mods. Plus we've got articles on using the BaseBoard4 and the Arudino. And that's just the beginning! Also in this issue: more CouchDB, Caffeine, OSWALD, Kdenlive, Transparent Firewalls, and solid-state drives vs rotational media.
Features
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A Simple Approach to Character Drivers in User Space
by Bob Smith
Drivers for the BaseBoard4. -
Using wview
by Mark Teel
How to justify buying your own weather station. -
Building Custom Firmware with OpenWrt
by Mike Petullo
Add the functions you want, even a media server. -
Real-Time Plots with kst and a Microcontroller
by Rob Reilly
Graphing data from an Arudino.
Indepth
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The OSWALD Project
by Victor Kuechler and Carlos Jensen
Re-inventing Computer Science through open source. -
Video Production 101: Making a Movie with Kdenlive
by Dave Phillips
Lights! Camera! Action!
Columns
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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
CouchDB Views
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Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Dealing with Signals
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Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin
Building a Transparent Firewall with Linux, Part I
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Kyle Rankin's Hack and /
Temper Temper
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Dirk Elmendorf's Economy Size Geek
Cool Project Potpourri
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Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers' Point/Counterpoint
Solid-State Drives vs. Rotational Media
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Doc Searls' EOF
Waving Goodbye to Facebook
