Redhat went now public and everyone can buy their shares. Who would have predicted that? Yes, somehow it is a logical step but is it really still the original spirit of Linux? What's next ? LinuxFocus shares?

This month issue has again a number of interesting articles. Nerdbank is a new interesting project and it would be good if it would really take off.
Under "Software Development" and "UNIX Basics" we have this month a number of articles about scripting languages. Some of them will be continued in November.
Many people who have configured their sendmail using M4 will be happy to learn more about this macro language. This article shows how M4 can be used for "Webdesign" tasks.

The CD-rom article is meant for Linux newbies and has a lot of information that is often missing in the installation manuals of the various distributions. This is a pretty good issue and LinuxFocus will continue to publish good articles that we get from our staff and readers. Enjoy the new issue!

Community

• Nerdbank - a banking initiative for open interfaces in electronic commerce, by Holger Blasum
  Nerdbank is a project to develop an open and secure banking system for worldwide electronic money transactions.

Software Development

• Perl I, 作者 Guido Socher
  这是一系列关于Perl的文章的开始.第一篇文章非常短,是给从来没有Perl经验的人 准备的.
  
• 面向会话的编程语言——Dialog, 作者 Philipp Gühring
  这是一种在游戏和模拟程序中编写对话框的语言.
  
• Tcl语法, by Brent B. Welch
  这篇文章解释了Tcl语言的基本概念和语法.
  
  

UNIX Basics

• AWK, by Javier Palacios Bermejo
  This article shows how to write litte AWK scripts to automise things during your daily work.
  
  
• How to use your CD-ROM under Linux, by Yao Feng
  This article gives a short but useful description on how to use your CD-ROM under Linux.

Webdesign

• 用m4 macros创建文本文件, by John Perr
  这个教程描述了如何用m4宏处理器来简化text或HTML文件的管理.