Features

• Virtual Domains and qmail  by Mike Thomas
  Here's a way to get control of your mail with secure, high performance and freely available software called qmail.
  
• PPPui: A Friendly GUI for PPP  by Nathan Meyers
  Having problems setting up PPP? Mr. Meyers gives us a graphical interface to make it easy.
  
• Quickly Setting Up PLIP and NFS  by Loris Renggli
  Need to transfer files between your desktop and your laptop? Here's the easy way to do it by networking.
  
• Introducing the Network Information Service for Linux  by Preston Brown
  NIS is a system for sharing system information between machines. Mr. Brown tells us how to set up and use it.
  
• Getting in the Fast Lane  by Michael Hughes
  Here's how to set up a broadband connection for your home or office LAN.
  

News & Articles

• The Coda Distributed File System  by Peter J. Braam
  Carnegie Mellon University has developed an exciting file system. Mr. Braam, one of the developers, tells us all about it.
  
• Magick with Images  by Steve Whitehouse
  Mr. Whitehouse gives us an introduction to a free software package for manipulating images—ImageMagick.
  
• Virtual Interview with Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell  by John Blair
  Author John Blair talks to two members of the Samba development team to discover some history and take a look at the future of the project.
  
• Linux WAN Routers: Musings of a Network Administrator  by Tony Mancill
  Another great use for Linux; Mr. Mancill tells us why his company picked Linux routers over the big names.
  
• Linus Speaks at SVLUG meeting  by Chris DiBona
  

Reviews

• Caldera OpenLinux Version 1.2  by Sid Wentworth
  
• Red Hat Linux 5.0  by Michael Taht and Retro
  
• Linux and the PalmPilot This article contains all the information you need to run Linux on the Palm Pilot personal digital assistant.  by Michael J. Hammel
  
• Administering Usenet News Servers  by Liam Greenwood
  
• Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows  by Dan Wilder
  

WWWsmith

• At the Forge   Server-Side Includes  by Reuven M. Lerner
  Don't want to learn CGI but still want dynamic web pages? Mr. Lerner introduces us to server-side includes.
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Editor   Connectivity  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Stop the Presses   Open Source Summit  by Eric Raymond
  
• Linux Apprentice   Understanding /dev  by Preston F. Crow
  Understanding /dev This article gives us a basic introduction to device files and their uses.
  
• Linux Means Business   South African Business Uses Linux to Connect  by Paul Daniels
  South African Business Uses Linux to Connect The story of a company replacing Windows systems with Linux to obtain better speed and greater reliability.
  
• New Products  
  
• System Administration   Mtool: Performance Monitoring for Multi-platform Systems  by Andrej Sostaric, Milan Gabor and Andreas Gygi
  
• Linux Gazette   An Intranet Filing System  by Justin Seiferth
  An Intranet Filing System Mr. Seiferth offers us a solution for keeping track of shared files on over an Intranet that utilizes several operating systems.
  
• Best of Technical Support