SUMMARY OF WHAT'S on the mag and CD... :

* This month's CD includes GCC 3.4.1, Tcl/Tk 8.5, Mono 1.0, Python 2.3.4, Visual Tcl 1.6.0, Mlton-Perl, PHP (among other programming tools). Apache HTTP server, XEmacs 21.4.5, GTK+ 2.4, PHP source code.

* CD2 is dedicated to the Morphix Gamer. Games run from your CD ROM drive, regardless of the OS you run.

POST YOUR PROBLEM: Queries on booting from Windows NT bootloader after installing Linux, setting up the boot-time config, disabling graphic KDE boot with Suse 7.0, coping with a "weire" problem in Debian.

GREAT LANGUAGE SHOOTOUT: Comparing 11 languages rated for 46 different parameters. An update of the Great Language Shootout pioneered by Douglas Bagley and Co, but which was abandoned since 2001.

In terms of core technical tests, Borland Delphi is ranked at the top, followed by C (BC/VC), Java, VC++, C# and VB.NET. Only after that come in Python, Perl, Tcl, PHP and VBScript. If you disagree, write to ramdas@developeriq.com or produce better programs in FLOSS and prove them wrong! This topic is covered in a series of articles.

FOR DEVELOPERS: India's largest CD ROM distribution and publishing company requires freelance developers and new products. "We require developers of games, education, edutainment, producitivity and utility software. Please mail demos of the products with your profiles to aladdin@vsnl.com or www.aladdinindia.com

ECLIPSE 3.0, A QUICK RUN THROUGH: Eclipse is the darling of Open Source Java developers these days. In its latest avatar, it has outclassed itself, opines Debashish Bose. He explores the IDE, and does a bit of coding.

CAN PHP MARRY IIS? Debashish Bose decides to play cupid and manages to marry off the server side scripting language of the FLOSS world with the Queen of the Microsoft web infrastructure, the IIS Server.

CHECK OUT: New flaws found in XP SP2. Page 77.

REVIEW: Beginning Red Hat Linux Fedora 2, Rs 429. Wrox/Wiley Dream Tech.

PERL TUTORIAL: CGI and Perl -- the basics. The HTML form Tags and Perl

* Selecting the right text format. * Linux installation paths * Security battle: Open Source versus closed source * Security issue: programmer's parameters * C language -- security primer * Library solutions in C/C++

CHINA JUMPS on the [GNU]Linux train.

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