Linux Journal Issue #48/April 1998
Emphasis: Workplace Solutions
Features
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LJ Interviews Mr. Eid Eid of Corel Computer
by Marjorie Richardson
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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
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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
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Letters to the Editor
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- From the Editor
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Workplace Solutions
by Marjorie Richardson
- Stop the Presses
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The Software world--It's a Changin'
by Phil Hughes
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New Products
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- System Administration
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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
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Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator
by Jesper Pedersen
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Best of Technical Support
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