Linux Journal Issue #36/April 1997

Emphasis: How to Buy a Linux System

Features

• Serial Terminal as Console by Francesco Conti
  Sans video card, sans keyboard, sans monitor: the amazing headless Linux box.
• Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Linux Workstation by Eric S Raymond
  These days, it's possible to put together a decent personal Unix Platform for less than $2,000 US.
• Thread-Specific Data and Signal Handling in Multi-Threaded Applications by Martin McCarthy
  This second part of a series on Multi-threading deals with how to use C programs with one of the POSIX packages available for Linux to handle signals and concurrent threads

News & Articles

• Creating Animations with POV-Ray by Andy Vaught
• The /proc File System and ProcMeter by Andrew M. Bishop
• Somebody Still Uses Assembly Language? by Richard A. Sevenich

Reviews

• Product Review
  • Applixware 4.2 for Linux by Gary Moore
• Book Review
  • Active Java and Exploring Java by Danny Yee

WWWsmith

• Using Perl to Check Web Links by Jim Weirich
• At the Forge: Quizzes by Reuven Lerner

Columns

• Letters to the Editor
• From the Publisher: Linux--The Internet Appliance? by Phil Hughes
• Stop the Presses: Usenix/Uselinux in Anaheim by Phil Hughes
• Linux Means Business: Using Linux at Lectra Systemes by Pierre Ficheux
• Novice to Novice: A 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect Linux to the Internet by Terry Dawson
• Take Command: od--The Oddest Little Text Utility Around by Randy Zack
• New Products
• Linux Gazette: Indexing Texts with SMART by Hans Paijmans
• Linux Gazette: History of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format by Greg Roelofs
• Best of Tech Support by Gena Shurtleff