Linux Journal Contents #50, June 1998

Emphasis: Connectivity

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.

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

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

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.

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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