Linux Journal Contents #74, June 2000

Focus

• People Behind Linux  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• We Talk to Everybody  by Marjorie Richardson, Jason Schumaker and David Penn
  A quick look at some of the people who helped make Linux possible.
  
• My Life and Free Software  by Jon “maddog” Hall
  

Forum

• Monitor diald from Anywhere on Your LAN  by Ed Beroset
  Find out what's happening when using IP Masquerade and diald to access the Internet remotely.
  
• wxPython, a GUI Toolkit  by Hugues Talbot
  Whether it's a flesh wound or not, you'll feel much better after reading about this new cross-platform toolkit written in Python and wrapped around wxWindows.
  
• Economical Fault-Tolerant Networks  by Ali Raza Butt with Jahangir Hasan, Kamran Khalid and Farhan-ud-din Mirza
  A software solution to achieve fault tolerance by capitalizing on redundant replication of data and elimination of any single point of failure and with transparent switchover.
  
• PoPToP, a Secure and Free VPN Solution  by Matthew Ramsay
  When the expense of a remote access server is no longer attractive, it's time to look at the solution offered by a VPN.
  
• Linux for the End User-Phase 1  by Clay Shirky
  
• The Artist's Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 3  by Michael Hammel
  In this episode, Mr. Hammel tells us about the Window Maker window manager, a less flashy but more mature product than Enlightenment.
  

Reviews

• Builder Xcessory  by Robert Hartley
  
• Visual SlickEdit 5.0  by Larry Ayers
  
• Photodex's CompuPic  by Michael J. Hammel
  
• Running Linux, 3rd Edition  by Ibrahim F. Haddad
  
• Programming the Perl DBI  by Bill Cunningham
  
• Comparative Book Review  by James Paul Holloway
  
• LINUX & UNIX Shell Programming  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Columns

• Linux Apprentice: Linux Tools for the Web   A look at some tools to help you easily create and maintain your web site.  by Ralph Krause
  
• Take Command   XVScan  by Marjorie Richardson
  Scanning photos has never been easier.
  
• Linux Means Business   Mission-Critical Application on Linux  by Rolf Krogstad
  This company converted to a Linux server for its Oracle database and increased operation speeds eight-fold.
  
• System Administration   Secure Logging Over a Network  by Federico and Christian Pellegrin
  In this article we are going to cover the idea of logging the system activities over a TCP network in a secure way, by interfacing the existing syslog daemon with secure shell using simple Perl scripts.
  
• Kernel Korner   Contributing to the Linux Kernel - Diff and Patch  by Joseph Pranevich
  To make changes in the kernel, you need to know all about the diff and patch commands.
  
• Linley on Linux Intel's Itanium on Launch Pad   The new Intel chip promises to take the PC to the high-end server market. Will Linux go along?  by Linley Gwennap
  
• Cooking with Linux   I'll Have My People Call Your People  by Marcel Gagné
  Building a web-based telephone book can be easy, as long as you don't drink too much of Marcel's wine while you work.
  
• At the Forge   Building Sites with Mason  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• The Cutting Edge   The Penguin and the Dinosaur  by Adam J. Thornton
  Think Linux is only for the PC? Think again.
  
• Games We Play: Game Developers Conference 2000  by Jason Kroll
  
• Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
  
• Embedded Systems News Briefs  by Rick Lehrbaum
  
• The Last Word  by Stan Kelly-Bootle
  

Departments

• Letters  
  More Letters
  
• upFRONT  
  
• Penguin's Progress: Just Folks  by Peter H. Salus
  
• Linux for Suits   The New Beginning  by Doc Searls
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  
• New Products  
  

Strictly On-Line

• Data and Telecommunications: Systems and Applications  by Derek Vadala
  
• Installing Window Maker  by Michael J. Hammel
  Mr. Hammel gives us the basics for installing and configuring Window Maker.