Linux Journal Issue #34/February 1997

Emphasis: Linux in the Real World

Features

• NF/Observatory Networking with Linux by Fred Treasure
  An observatory in New Mexico uses Linux to network the computers providing remote control of its optical telescope.
• xldlas - A Program for Statistics by Thor Sigvaldason
  Unable to find a program for doing simple statistical choresthat worked on Linux, the author decided to write one.
• What is Multi-Threading? by Martin McCarthy
  A primer on multi-threading: the process whereby linux manages several tasks simultaneously.

News & Articles

• A Comparison of Xemacs and GNU emacs by Larry Ayers
• Introducing Real-Time Linux by Michael Barabanov and Victor Yodaiken
• At Last, An X-Based vi by Dan Wilder
• XBanner: Making XDM More Attractive by Amit Margalit
• Graphing with lout by Michael Hall
• WATCHDOG: The Linux Software Daemon by Michael Meskes

Reviews

• Product Review
  • System Commander by Terrence Miller
• Book Review
  • Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 2nd ed. by Dan Wilder

WWWsmith

• At the Forge: CGI Programming by Reuven Lerner
• Writing CGI Scripts in Python by Michel Vanaken
• CGI: Safety First by Hans de Vreught

Columns

• Letters to the Editor
• Stop the Presses: DECUS and OSW by Gary Moore and Phil Hughes
• Linux Means Business: Practical Linux: A Bosnian Experience by John Gorkos
• New Products
• Linux Gazette: Tips from the Graphic Muse by Michael J Hammel
• Best of Tech Support by Gena Shurtleff