Linux Journal Contents #53, September 1998

Features

• Developing Imaging Applications with XIE  by Syd Logan
  Mr. Logan describes the X Image Extension and show us how to use it—for the experienced C programmer.
  
• Open Inventor  by Robert Hartley
  Mr. Hartley shows how to do interactive 3-D programming using Open Inventor, Release 2, which he used to create the images on our cover.
  
• LibGGI: Yet Another Graphics API  by Andreas Beck
  The next generation fully portable graphics library
  
• Porting SGI Audio Applications to Linux  by David Phillips and Richard Kent
  This article describes the process of porting a variety of audio applications from the SGI platform to the Linux operating system.
  
• Visualizing with VTK  by James C. Moore
  A look at a new tool for visualizations of scientific data—VTK, an object-oriented visual toolkit.
  

News & Articles

• Porting MS-DOS Graphics Applications  by Jawed Karim
  Are you hesitant about porting your favorite VGA MS-DOS program to Linux? Using this tutorial and SVGALIB, porting will truly become a matter of minutes.
  
• A Tale of DXPC: Differential X Protocol Compression  by Justin Gaither
  Article about using Differential X Protocol Compression which compresses X messages up to over 7:1.
  
• Chess Software for Linux  by Jason Kroll
  Once there was a time when chess software for the home was slow, weak and expensive. To find human opponents, you had to go to your local chess club. Today, the situations is different.
  
• LJ Interviews LDP's Greg Hankins  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Migrating to Linux, Part 2  by Norman M. Jacobowitz and Jim Hebert
  We continue with our look at converting an office from a commercial operating system to Linux.
  

Reviews

• SockMail  by Noah Yasskin
  
• UNIX Power Tools  by Samuel Ockman
  
• Managing AFS: Andrew File System  by Daniel Lazenby
  
• Discover Linux  by Marjorie Richardson
  

WWWsmith

• Updating Pages Automatically  by Reuven M. Lerner
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Editor   How Many Distributions?  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Stop the Presses   USENIX 1998  by Aaron Mauck
  USENIX 1998 SSC's system administrator travels to New Orleans and actually returns to tell us about it.
  
• Take Command   A Little Devil Called tr  by Hans de Vreught
  A Little Devil Called tr Here's a useful command for translating or deleting characters in a file.
  
• Linux Means Business   Training on a Token Ring Network  by Charles Kitsuki
  Training on a Token Ring Network Linux can provide technical managers with cost-effective, reliable training tools
  
• New Products  
  
• Kernel Korner   Driving One's Own Audio Device  by Alessandro Rubini
  Driving One's Own Audio Device In this article Alessandro will show the design and implementation of a custom audio device, paying particular attention to the software driver. The driver, as usual, is developed as a kernel module. Even though Linux 2.2 will be out by the time you read this, the software described here works only with Linux-2.0 and the first few decades of 2.1 versions.
  
• Linux Gazette   MUP: Music Publisher  by Bob van der Poel
  MUP: Music Publisher Here's a look at notation editors for producing sheet music under Linux.
  
• Best of Technical Support