Focus

• Linux on the Desktop  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• KDE—The Next Generation  by Kalle Dalheimer
  Ready to jazz up your KDE desktop—get KDE 2.0.
  
• GNOME, Its State and Future  by George Lebl, Elliot Lee and Miguel de Icaza
  The GNOME team bring us up-to-date on the progress of this popular desktop environment.
  
• Artists' Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 1  by Michael J. Hammel
  The first in a series by our favorite artist to take a look at the most commonly used window managers.
  
• Office Wars: Applixware and StarOffice  by Jason Kroll
  Office suites are the mainstay application for any OS; Linux has two competing for your business.
  

Forum

• LaTeX for Secretaries  by Jacek Artymiak
  How to survive without Microsoft Word.
  
• Matlab—A Tool for Doing Numerics  by Tobias Vancura
  An introduction to a command-line program for matrix manipulation.
  
• Remind: The Ultimate Personal Calendar  by David F. Skoll
  If you have trouble remembering where you are going, this clever program can help you find your way.
  
• LinuxPPC 1999  by Stephane Morvan
  How to install Linux on your Power Macintosh to gain a robust alternative to the MacOS.
  
• Open Source/Open Science 1999  by Stephen Adler
  Mr. Adler tells us about a first-of-its-kind conference.
  
• Profile: TiVo  by Craig Knudsen
  The ultimate in recording television programs, TiVo is a set-top box that does everything for you.
  

Reviews

• CommuniGate Pro Mail Server  by Scott Wegener
  
• Code Fusion Version 1.0  by Daniel Lazenby
  
• Teach Yourself StarOffice 5 for Linux in 24 Hours  by Ben Crowder
  
• The No B.S. Guide to Red Hat Linux 6  by Harvey Friedman
  
• LINUX to go  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• StarOffice for Dummies  by Sid Wentworth
  

Columns

• Linux Apprentice: SCSI—Small Computer System Interface   Successfully installing a SCSI device on a PC.  by Keith de Solla
  
• Take Command   HFS utilities  by Marjorie Richardson
  Data on Macintosh disks can be read into Linux quite easily with this tool package.
  
• Linux Means Business   Using Linux at the Aging Research Centre  by Jason Neudorf and Steven A. Garan
  Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab—I mean, slide.
  
• System Administration   Mark's Mega Multi-Boot Computer  by Mark Nielsen
  Mark talks about his crazy multi-boot computer, which does have some practical value.
  
• Kernel Korner   : Linux 2.4 Spotlight: ISA Plug and Play  by Joseph Pranevich
  If you are tired of the complexity of configuring PnP devices for Linux, you can look forward to some relief from the 2.4 kernel release.
  
• Linux Gazette: Emacs Macros and the Power-Macros Package   Writing Emacs macros doesn't have to be hard—Mr. Pedersen helps you get “more power”.  by Jesper Pedersen
  
• Cooking with Linux   Tasty KDE Desktop Themes  by Marcel Gagné
  
• At the Forge   More About Searching  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
  
• The Last Word  by Stan Kelly-Bootle
  

Departments

• Letters  
  More Letters
  
• upFRONT  
  
• Penguin's Progress: Desktops of the Future  by Peter Salus
  
• Linux for Suits  by Doc Searls
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  
• New Products  
  

Strictly On-Line

• T/TCP: TCP for Transactions  by Mark Stacey, Ivan Griffin and John Nelson
  A discussion of the operation, advantages and flaws of an experimental extension for the TCP protocol.
  
• POSIX Thread Libraries  by Felix Garcia and Javier Fernandez
  The authors have studied five libraries which can be used for multi-thread applications and herein present the results.
  
• Linux and Open-Source Applications  by Peter Jones and M. B. Jorgenson
  The building blocks for a secure and trustworthy computer platform.
  
• Laptops for Linux!  by Jason Kroll