Linux Journal Contents #88, August 2001

Features

• Focus: Platforms  by Richard Vernon
  
• The Trials and Tribulations of Installing LinuxPPC 2000 Q4  by Paul Barry
  How easy is it to use Linux on a Mac?
  
• PostgreSQL Performance Tuning  by Bruce Momjian
  Configure to get the most from PostgreSQL.
  

Indepth

• freeVSD Enables Safe Experiments  by Randall Embry
  Take the danger out of testing new software (and administrators) with freeVSD.
  

Toolbox

• Kernel Korner   Kernel Tuning Gives 40% Gains  by Rick Gorton
  
• At the Forge   XMLC  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Launch, not Lunch Platforms!  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   swatch: Automated Log Monitoring for the Vigilant but Lazy  by Mick Bauer
  
• GFX DreamWorks Features Linux and Animation  by Robin Rowe
  

Columns

• Linley on Linux New Chips Make Security Almost Free  by Linley Gwennap
  
• Focus on Software  by David Bandel
  
• Focus on Embedded Systems  by Rick Lehrbaum
  
• Geek Law Copyright Questions  by Lawrence Rosen
  

Reviews

• Kylix  by Petr Sorfa
  
• Mandrake 8.0  by Choong Ng
  
• PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts  by Stephanie Black
  

Departments

• Letters  
  
• upFRONT  
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  
• New Products