Focus

• Databases  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• Creating a Client-Server Database System with Windows 95 and Linux  by Liu Kwong Ip
  Here's the way to develop a dial-on-demand database cluster in Linux.
  
• Using Java Servlets with Database Connectivity  by Bruce McDonald
  The persistent nature of Java servlets makes them ideal for database/web technology. Mr. McDonald takes a look at using servlets with PostgreSQL and JDBC.
  
• Open Database Connectivity  by Peter Harvey
  Mr. Harvey describes the ODBC open specification for application developers.
  
• MySQL Introduction  by David Axmark and Michael Widenius
  A look at the MySQL database—where it's been, where it is now, and where it's going.
  
• Oracle Database Administration on Linux with ORAC-DBA  by Kevin Kitts
  Database Administration got you down? Here's a tool to help you out.
  

Forum

• Performance Comparison  by Tim Newman
  A look at computational performance for an appoication running on an x86 CPU with Linux and Windows 95/98/NT, and how they compare.
  
• PHP version 4  by Craig Knudsen
  This personal tool to a popular Apache module is now in version 4 beta.
  
• Linus Torvalds  by Marjorie Richardson
  A conversation with the man himself.
  

Reviews

• ICP vortex GDT RAID Controllers  by Eric Green
  
• DB2 v5.2 for Linux  by John Kacur
  
• CodeWizard for Linux  by Ben Crowder
  
• VA Linux Workstation VArStation XMP  by Jason Kroll
  
• MySQL and mSQL  by Reuven M. Lerner
  

Columns

• System Administration   EMU—Event Management Utility  by Jarra Voleynik and Anna Voleynik
  The authors present a freely available tool for monitoring enterprise systems through simplicity toward complexity.
  
• At the Forge   Working with LWP  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Focus on Software   Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
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Departments

• Letters  
  More Letters
  
• upFRONT  
  
• Penguin's Progress: Hacking an Industry  by Doc Searls
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  
• New Products  
  

Strictly On-Line

• NoSQL Tutorial  by Giuseppe Paterno
  A comprehensive look at the NoSQL database.
  
• Interfacing Relational Databases to the Web  by Will Benton
  This document explains how to build a database-backed web site using Apache, the php3 module and the PostgreSQL relational database.
  
• Automating IP Host Data Collection on a LAN  by Joe Nasal
  Using Linux and the ACEDB database system makes easy work of local area network management.
  
• Buy One, Get One Free  by R. Scott Gray, Luke Pargiter and Phil Pfeiffer
  Configuring Linux as a dual-purpose user environment.
  
• Linux in the Tropics  by Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel
  Linux is flourishing in Brazil. There is a Brazilian distribution, several high-traffic mailing lists, articles on mainstream newspapers and many users. Now, they have their first Linux User's Association.
  
• Mastering Linux  by Bob van der Poel
  
• Linux Configuration & Installation, 4th Ed.  by Bob van der Poel
  A book review.
  
• How to Install and Configure Oracle on Linux  by Greg Flannery
  A step by step demonstration of the Oracle installation process.