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Focus

• Linux on the Desktop [2]  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• KDE—The Next Generation [3]  by Kalle Dalheimer
  Ready to jazz up your KDE desktop—get KDE 2.0.
  
• GNOME, Its State and Future [4]  by George Lebl, Elliot Lee and Miguel de Icaza
  The GNOME team bring us up-to-date on the progress of this popular desktop environment.
  
• Artists' Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 1 [5]  by Michael J. Hammel
  The first in a series by our favorite artist to take a look at the most commonly used window managers.
  
• Office Wars: Applixware and StarOffice [6]  by Jason Kroll
  Office suites are the mainstay application for any OS; Linux has two competing for your business.
  

Forum

• LaTeX for Secretaries [7]  by Jacek Artymiak
  How to survive without Microsoft Word.
  
• Matlab—A Tool for Doing Numerics [8]  by Tobias Vancura
  An introduction to a command-line program for matrix manipulation.
  
• Remind: The Ultimate Personal Calendar [9]  by David F. Skoll
  If you have trouble remembering where you are going, this clever program can help you find your way.
  
• LinuxPPC 1999 [10]  by Stephane Morvan
  How to install Linux on your Power Macintosh to gain a robust alternative to the MacOS.
  
• Open Source/Open Science 1999 [11]  by Stephen Adler
  Mr. Adler tells us about a first-of-its-kind conference.
  
• Profile: TiVo [12]  by Craig Knudsen
  The ultimate in recording television programs, TiVo is a set-top box that does everything for you.
  

Reviews

• CommuniGate Pro Mail Server [13]  by Scott Wegener
  
• Code Fusion Version 1.0 [14]  by Daniel Lazenby
  
• Teach Yourself StarOffice 5 for Linux in 24 Hours [15]  by Ben Crowder
  
• The No B.S. Guide to Red Hat Linux 6 [16]  by Harvey Friedman
  
• LINUX to go [17]  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• StarOffice for Dummies [18]  by Sid Wentworth
  

Columns

• Linux Apprentice: SCSI—Small Computer System Interface   Successfully installing a SCSI device on a PC. [19]  by Keith de Solla
  
• Take Command   HFS utilities [20]  by Marjorie Richardson
  Data on Macintosh disks can be read into Linux quite easily with this tool package.
  
• Linux Means Business   Using Linux at the Aging Research Centre [21]  by Jason Neudorf and Steven A. Garan
  Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab—I mean, slide.
  
• System Administration   Mark's Mega Multi-Boot Computer [22]  by Mark Nielsen
  Mark talks about his crazy multi-boot computer, which does have some practical value.
  
• Kernel Korner   : Linux 2.4 Spotlight: ISA Plug and Play [23]  by Joseph Pranevich
  If you are tired of the complexity of configuring PnP devices for Linux, you can look forward to some relief from the 2.4 kernel release.
  
• Linux Gazette: Emacs Macros and the Power-Macros Package   Writing Emacs macros doesn't have to be hard—Mr. Pedersen helps you get “more power”. [24]  by Jesper Pedersen
  
• Cooking with Linux   Tasty KDE Desktop Themes [25]  by Marcel Gagné
  
• At the Forge   More About Searching [26]  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Focus on Software [27]  by David A. Bandel
  
• The Last Word [28]  by Stan Kelly-Bootle
  

Departments

• Letters [29]  
  More Letters [30]
  
• upFRONT [31]  
  
• Penguin's Progress: Desktops of the Future [32]  by Peter Salus
  
• Linux for Suits [33]  by Doc Searls
  
• Best of Technical Support [34]  
  
• New Products [35]  
  

Strictly On-Line

• T/TCP: TCP for Transactions [36]  by Mark Stacey, Ivan Griffin and John Nelson
  A discussion of the operation, advantages and flaws of an experimental extension for the TCP protocol.
  
• POSIX Thread Libraries [37]  by Felix Garcia and Javier Fernandez
  The authors have studied five libraries which can be used for multi-thread applications and herein present the results.
  
• Linux and Open-Source Applications [38]  by Peter Jones and M. B. Jorgenson
  The building blocks for a secure and trustworthy computer platform.
  
• Laptops for Linux! [39]  by Jason Kroll