Linux Journal Contents #82, February 2001

Features

• Focus: Kernel Internals  by Don Marti
  
• Making Inodes Behave  by Clay J. Claiborne, Jr.
  Claiborne describes the difficulties he encountered while building Linux systems for General Dynamics.
  
• Journaling with ReisersFS  by Chris Mason
  Mason gives a tour through the Reiser File System: its features and construction.
  
• The Linux Telephony Kernel API  by Greg Herlein
  Herlein explains the integration of the telephony device driver into the Linux kernel.
  
• Inner Workings of WANPIPE  by Nenad Corbic and David Mandelstam
  Corbic and Mandelstam discuss the structure and user interfaces to the WANPIPE drivers as they have evolved and currently exist.
  

Indepth

• Web Servers and Dynamic Content  by Dan Teodor
  Using legacy languages like C and Fortran can aid computationally complex web applications.
  
• Porting from IRIX to Linux  by George Koharchik and Brian Roberts
  Coding for portability to Linux: examples from the ACRT land vehicle port.
  
• Expanding Options for Clustering  by Ken Dove
  The role of Linux in the future of clustering.
  
• That's Vimprovement! A Better Vi  by Steve Oualline
  Ouallin details the enhancement of the Vim vi clone.
  
• Open Source in Electronic Design Automation  by Michael Baxter
  An interview with Stephen Williams, the creator of the Icarus Veriolg compiler.
  
• Remote Sensing with Linux  by Mark Lucas
  One company takes the initiative and saves time and money using a Linux Beowulf cluster.
  
• PocketLinux Gives Jabber Its First Hand(held)  by Doc Searls
  The “Next Bang” prophecy fulfilled.
  
• Andamooka: Open Support for Open Content  by David Sweet
  Open-source software development provides an inspirational model for books.
  

Toolbox

• GFX Linux as a Video Desktop  by Robin Rowe
  
• Kernel Korner   Loadable Kernel Module Programming and System Call Interception  by Nitesh Dhanjani and Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera
  
• At the Forge   More with Three-Tiered Design  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Smell of Fresh-Baked Kernels  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   The 101 Uses of OpenSSH: Part II of II  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• Linley on Linux: Linux Enters Router Market  by Linley Gwennap
  
• Linux in Education: Teaching System Administration with Linux  by D. Robert Adams and Carl Erickson
  
• Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
  
• Focus on Embedded Systems  by Rick Lehrbaum
  
• The Last Word: Finality  by Stan Kelly-Bootle
  
• Linux for Suits   A Talk with Tim O'Reilly  by Doc Searls
  
• Games Penguins Play: Heavy Gear II for Linux  by Neil Doane
  

Reviews

• easyLinux and easySamba  by Joseph Cheek
  
• Linux and the New Internet Computer  by Bill Ball
  
• Python Developer's Handbook  by Phil Hughes
  
• Linux DNS Server Administration  by Ralph Krause
  

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