Linux Journal Contents #36, April 1997

Features

• Serial Terminal as Console  by Francesco Conti
  Sans video card, sans keyboard, sans monitor: the amazing headless Linux box.
  
• Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Linux Workstation  by Eric S Raymond
  These days, it's possible to put together a decent personal Unix Platform for less than $2,000 US.
  
• Thread-Specific Data and Signal Handling in Multi-Threaded Applications  by Martin McCarthy
  This second part of a series on Multi-threading deals with how to use C programs with one of the POSIX packages available for Linux to handle signals and concurrent threads
  

News & Articles

• Creating Animations with POV-Ray  by Andy Vaught
  
• The /proc File System and ProcMeter  by Andrew M. Bishop
  
• Somebody Still Uses Assembly Language?  by Richard A. Sevenich
  

Reviews

• Product Review   Applixware 4.2 for Linux  by Gary Moore
  
• Book Review   Active Java and Exploring Java  by Danny Yee
  

WWWsmith

• Using Perl to Check Web Links  by Jim Weirich
  
• At the Forge   Quizzes  by Reuven Lerner
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Publisher   Linux—The Internet Appliance?  by Phil Hughes
  
• Stop the Presses   Usenix/Uselinux in Anaheim  by Phil Hughes
  
• Linux Means Business   Using Linux at Lectra Systemes  by Pierre Ficheux
  
• Novice to Novice   A 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect Linux to the Internet  by Terry Dawson
  
• Take Command   od—The Oddest Little Text Utility Around  by Randy Zack
  
• New Products  
  
• Linux Gazette   Indexing Texts with SMART  by Hans Paijmans
  
• Linux Gazette   History of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format  by Greg Roelofs
  
• Best of Tech Support  by Gena Shurtleff