Focus

• Graphics  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• Scott Draeker and Sam Latinga, Loki Entertainment  by Michael J. Hammel
  A talk with the company who brings you the computer game Civilization: Call To Power.
  
• Motif/Lesstif Application Development  by Glen Wiley
  A tutorial designed to help you build your own GUI.
  
• Linux as an OPI Server in the Graphic Arts Industry  by Jeff Wall
  A printing company finds Linux servers speed up their pre-press work.
  
• Flight Simulators  by Roman Melnyk
  A look at Linux in the Aerospace Training Industry.
  

Forum

• Linux Expo 1999  by Marjorie Richardson
  Linux Journal attends Linux Expo.
  
• Robert Young of Red Hat Software  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Market Making for the Bazaar  by Bernie Thompson
  
• Hans L. Knobloch of IGEL  by Marjorie Richardson
  A talk with the head of the company that invented the thin client.
  
• AbiWord: AbiSource's Open Source Word Processor  by Craig Knudsen
  A cross-platform commercial application is giving away their source—here's the story.
  
• Dynamic Load Balancing DNS: dlbDNS  by Harish V.C. and Brad Owens
  This article discusses an attempt to solve the problem of network traffic congestion by adding a dynamic load balancing feature to the existing DNS.
  

Columns

• At the Forge   Advanced “New” Labels  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
  
• Linux Apprentice   Graphical Toolkits for Linux Programs  by Patrick Lambert
  Graphical Toolkits for Linux Programs A brief look at several popular toolkits available for Linux.
  

Reviews

• Caldera 2.2 Review  by Jason Kroll
  
• Helius Satellite Router  by Phil Hughes
  
• Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software  by Michael J. Hammel
  
• The Artists' Guide to the Gimp  by Syd Logan
  

Departments

• Letters  
  More Letters to the Editor
  
• upFRONT  
  
• New Products  
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  

Strictly On-line

• Extending the Bash Prompt  by Giles Orr
  Terminal and xterm prompts can be created incorporating standard escape sequences to give user name, current working directory, time and more.
  
• A High Availability Clustering Solution  by Phil Lewis
  Mr. Lewis tells us how he designed and implemented a simple high-availability solution for his company.
  
• Introduction to Sybase, Part 3  by Jay Sissom
  
• Plug and Play Hardware under Linux  by David Cantrell
  
• Open Source Remote Sensing Effort  by Dr. Shawana P. Johnson
  Remote sensing software is being developed using the Open Source model by the web project at remotesensing.org.
  
• Linux: The Complete Reference, Second Edition  by Ben Crowder