Features

• An Introduction to IC Design under Linux  by Toby Schaffer & Alan W Glaser
  Linux becomes a platform that can be used to create realworld, working chips when freely available tools are used in concert.
  
• Analyzing Circuits with SPICE on Linux  by Kevin Cosgrove
  Designing many of today's circuuits would be impossible without the aid of SPICE—the Simulations Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis.
  
• Porting Scientific and Engineering Programs to Linux  by Charles T Kelsey IV and Gary L Masters
  One can compile scientific and engineering code under Linux using free FORTRAN 77 options.
  
• Linux Out of the Real World  by Sebastian Kuzminsky
  Plant experiments run by Linux ride the space shuttle.
  

News & Articles

• Octave: A Free, High-Level Language for Mathematics  by Malcolm Murphy
  
• Programming with the XForms Library, Part 1  by Thor Sigvaldason
  
• Send Your Smile By E-mail  by Frank Pilhofer
  
• Letter to Bob: Configuring an Intel Linux System  by Jon “maddog” Hall
  
• CeBIT '97  by Belinda Frasier
  

Reviews

• Product Review   MicroStation 95 for Linux  by Bradley Willson
  
• Book Review   Learning the bash Shell  by Danny Yee
  
• Book Review   Source Code Secrets: The Basic Kernel  by Phil Hughes
  

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• At the Forge   Multiple Choice Quizes, Part 3  by Reuven Lerner
  

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• From the Publisher   Is Linux Reliable Enough?  
  
• Stop the Presses   Linux Expo  by Jon “maddog” Hall
  
• Take Command   wc  by Alexandre Valente Sousa
  
• Linux Means Business   MYDATA's Industrial Robots  by Tom Bjorkholm
  
• Linux Gazette   Clueless at the Prompt  by Mike List
  
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