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Linux Journal Issue #50/June 1998

Emphasis: Connectivity


Features

Virtual Domains and qmail by Mike Thomas
Here's a way to get control of your mail with secure, high performance and freely available software called qmail.

PPPui: A Friendly GUI for PPP by Nathan Meyers
Having problems setting up PPP? Mr. Meyers gives us a graphical interface to make it easy.

Quickly Setting Up PLIP and NFS by Loris Renggli
Need to transfer files between your desktop and your laptop? Here's the easy way to do it by networking.

Introducing the Network Information Service for Linux by Preston Brown
NIS is a system for sharing system information between machines. Mr. Brown tells us how to set up and use it.

Getting in the Fast Lane by Michael Hughes
Here's how to set up a broadband connection for your home or office LAN.

News & Articles

The Coda Distributed File System by Peter J. Braam
Carnegie Mellon University has developed an exciting file system. Mr. Braam, one of the developers, tells us all about it.

Magick with Images by Steve Whitehouse
Mr. Whitehouse gives us an introduction to a free software package for manipulating images--ImageMagick.

Virtual Interview with Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell by John Blair
Author John Blair talks to two members of the Samba development team to discover some history and take a look at the future of the project.

Linux WAN Routers: Musings of a Network Administrator by Tony Mancill
Another great use for Linux; Mr. Mancill tells us why his company picked Linux routers over the big names.

Linus Speaks at SVLUG meeting by Chris DiBona

Reviews

Caldera OpenLinux Version 1.2 by Sid Wentworth

Red Hat Linux 5.0 by Michael Taht and Retro

Linux and the PalmPilot by Michael J. Hammel
This article contains all the information you need to run Linux on the Palm Pilot personal digital assistant.

Administering Usenet News Servers by Liam Greenwood

Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows by Dan Wilder

WWWsmith

At the Forge: Server-Side Includes by Reuven M. Lerner
Don't want to learn CGI but still want dynamic web pages? Mr. Lerner introduces us to server-side includes.

Columns

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor
Connectivity by Marjorie Richardson

Stop the Presses
Open Source Summit by Eric Raymond

Linux Apprentice
Understanding /dev by Preston F. Crow
This article gives us a basic introduction to device files and their uses.

Linux Means Business
South African Business Uses Linux to Connect by Paul Daniels
The story of a company replacing Windows systems with Linux to obtain better speed and greater reliability.

New Products

System Administration
Mtool: Performance Monitoring for Multi-platform Systems by Andrej Sostaric, Milan Gabor and Andreas Gygi

Linux Gazette
An Intranet Filing System by Justin Seiferth
Mr. Seiferth offers us a solution for keeping track of shared files on over an Intranet that utilizes several operating systems.

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