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Linux Journal Issue #48/April 1998

Emphasis: Workplace Solutions


Features

Using Linux in a Control and Robotics Lab by Jon Davis
How a lab at Queen's University is using Linux to develop programs and control hardware experiments.

Biomedical Research and Linux by Roger S. Flugel
Linux is readily establishing itself in the biomedical field as a powerful and reliable system for research computing.

Latvian Government Uses Linux by Dmitrie Komarov
Mr. Komarov tells us how he used Linux to give an old database new capabilities and thereby saved his government money.

Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans by Simon J. Keogh, Emmanouil Oikonomou, Daniel Ballestero and
Presented here is an overview of the kind of remote sensing that is done at Southampton University and how Linux has helped improve our productivity.

Small Business Marketing of Linux by Cliff Seruntine
Linux is a good business product. This article deals with the why, how and who of selling Linux.

News & Articles

Building Projects With Imake by Otto Hammersmith
Here's an explanation of how Imake works and how you can use it to build your executables--an article for programmers with C and Unix programming skills.

Linux Network Programming, Part 3: CORBA: The Software Bus by Ivan Griffin, Mark Donnelly and John Nelson
This month we are presented with an introduction to the networking of distributed objects and the use of CORBA.

Financial Calculation Programs for Linux by James Shapiro
Mr. Shapiro shows us how to write a program to compute internal rate of return using three programming languages supported by Linux--Perl, C and Java.

LJ Interviews Mr. Eid Eid of Corel Computer by Marjorie Richardson

Helping Netscape Make History by Eric S. Raymond
Netscape source is now free, who would have thought it? Eric Raymond, that's who. Here are his insights into this momentous event.

Reviews

WWWsmith

At the Forge: Using What We've Learned by Reuven M. Lerner
This month Mr. Lerner shows us how to set up a web site using many of the techniques he's taught us over the past months.

Columns

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor
Workplace Solutions by Marjorie Richardson

Stop the Presses
The Software world--It's a Changin' by Phil Hughes

New Products

System Administration
Managing your Logs with Chklogs by Emilio Grimaldo
An introduction to a program written by Mr. Grimaldo to manage system logs.

Kernel Corner Writing a Linux Driver by Fernando Matia
The main goal of this article is to learn what a driver is, how to implement a driver for Linux and how to integrate it into the operating system. An article for the experienced C programmer.

Linux Gazette
Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator by Jesper Pedersen

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