Features

• The Crystal Experiment: Linux in a Physics Lab  by Emanuele Leonardi and Giovanni Organtini
  Linux is now being used in high-energy nuclear studies in Geneva by CERN.
  
• Due South with the British Antarctic Survey  by Craig Donlon and James Crawshaw
  Linux now facilitates scientific research in the Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica.
  
• Linux in a Scientific Laboratory  by Przemek Klosowski, Nick Maliszewskyj and Bud Dickerson
  The authors tell us how they use Linux daily to fulfill the requirements of their lab.
  
• Global Position Reporting  by Richard Parry
  Although the GPS was originally intended for use by the military, in peace time it has given rise to applications that were heretofore limited to science fiction.
  
• Javalanche: An Avalanche Predictor  by Richard Sevenich and Rick Price
  This article introduces a prototypical avalanche predicting software package implemented with a Fuzzy Logic algorithm.
  
• ROOT: An Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework  by Fons Rademakers and Rene Brun
  A report on a data analysis tool currently being developed at CERN.
  

News & Articles

• A Glimpse of Icon: A Language For the Rest of Us  by Clinton Jeffery and Shamim Mohamed
  This article gives a quick introduction to the programming language Icon, developed at the University of Arizona.
  
• Having Fun on ViewSurf  by Pierre Ficheux
  This article explains how linux is used in the ViewSurf “Beach Report”, a fun WebCAM-based service.
  
• Encrypted File Systems  by Bear Giles
  Here's a good way to protect your files. Mr. Giles explains how to encrypt your entire file system rather than individual files.
  
• Graphical Desktop Korn Shell  by George Kraft IV
  The Graphical Desktop Korn Shell (DtKsh) is a featured part of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). DtKsh provides a consistent and reliable graphical Motif shell language that is supported on all CDE-compliant systems.
  
• A SCSI Test Tool for Linux  by Pete Popov
  
• Introducing Samba  by John Blair
  When you need to network your Linux box with Windows, Samba is the way to do it.
  

Reviews

• Softfocus BTree/ISAM v3.1  by Edmund P. Morgan
  
• Insure++  by Jim Nance
  

WWWsmith

• At the Forge   Combining Apache and Perl  by Reuven M. Lerner
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• Stop the Presses   COMDEX/Spring 1998  by Jon “maddog” Hall
  
• Take Command   lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing  by Dean Allen Provins
  lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing Today, computers can talk and they can listen—but how often do they do what you want?
  
• New Products  
  
• Kernel Korner   Miscellaneous Character Drivers  by Alessandro Rubini
  Miscellaneous Character Drivers Mr. Rubini tells us how to register a small device needing a single entry point with the misc driver.
  
• Linux Gazette   The Yorick Programming Language  by Cary O'Brien
  The Yorick Programming Language Yorick is an interpreted language for numerical analysis used by scientist on machines from Linux laptops to Cray supercomputers.
  
• Best of Technical Support