Linux Journal Contents #48, April 1998

Features

• Using Linux in a Control and Robotics Lab  by Jon Davis
  How a lab at Queen's University is using Linux to develop programs and control hardware experiments.
  
• Biomedical Research and Linux  by Roger S. Flugel
  Linux is readily establishing itself in the biomedical field as a powerful and reliable system for research computing.
  
• Latvian Government Uses Linux  by Dmitrie Komarov
  Mr. Komarov tells us how he used Linux to give an old database new capabilities and thereby saved his government money.
  
• Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans  by Simon J. Keogh, Emmanouil Oikonomou, Daniel Ballestero and Ian Robinson
  Presented here is an overview of the kind of remote sensing that is done at Southampton University and how Linux has helped improve our productivity.
  
• Small Business Marketing of Linux  by Cliff Seruntine
  Linux is a good business product. This article deals with the why, how and who of selling Linux.
  

News & Articles

• Building Projects With Imake  by Otto Hammersmith
  Here's an explanation of how Imake works and how you can use it to build your executables—an article for programmers with C and Unix programming skills.
  
• Linux Network Programming, Part 3: CORBA: The Software Bus  by Ivan Griffin, Mark Donnelly and John Nelson
  This month we are presented with an introduction to the networking of distributed objects and the use of CORBA.
  
• Financial Calculation Programs for Linux  by James Shapiro
  Mr. Shapiro shows us how to write a program to compute internal rate of return using three programming languages supported by Linux—Perl, C and Java.
  
• LJ Interviews Mr. Eid Eid of Corel Computer  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Helping Netscape Make History  by Eric S. Raymond
  Netscape source is now free, who would have thought it? Eric Raymond, that's who. Here are his insights into this momentous event.
  

Reviews

• Product Reviews   Visual SlickEdit: A Commercial Editor for Programmers  by Larry Ayers
  
• Product Reviews   WordPerfect 7 for Linux  by Michael Scott Shappe
  
• Product Reviews   TeraSpell 97 for Emacs  by Daniel Lazenby
  
• Book Reviews   Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk  by John McLaughlin
  
• Book Reviews   Protecting Your Web Site with Firewalls  by Leam Hall
  

WWWsmith

• At the Forge   Using What We've Learned  by Reuven M. Lerner
  This month Mr. Lerner shows us how to set up a web site using many of the techniques he's taught us over the past months.
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Editor   Workplace Solutions  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Stop the Presses   The Software world—It's a Changin'  by Phil Hughes
  
• New Products  
  
• System Administration   Managing your Logs with Chklogs  by Emilio Grimaldo
  Managing your Logs with Chklogs An introduction to a program written by Mr. Grimaldo to manage system logs.
  
• Kernel Korner   Writing a Linux Driver  by Fernando Matia
  The main goal of this article is to learn what a driver is, how to implement a driver for Linux and how to integrate it into the operating system. An article for the experienced C programmer.
  
• Linux Gazette   Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator  by Jesper Pedersen
  
• Best of Technical Support