Linux Journal Contents #70, February 2000

KDE--The Next Generation by Kalle Dalheimer: Ready to jazz up your KDE desktop--get KDE 2.0.
GNOME, Its State and Future by George Lebl, Elliot Lee and Miguel de Icaza: The GNOME team bring us up-to-date on the progress of this popular desktop environment.
Artists' Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 1 by Michael J. Hammel: The first in a series by our favorite artist to take a look at the most commonly used window managers.
Office Wars: Applixware and StarOffice by Jason Kroll: Office suites are the mainstay application for any OS; Linux has two competing for your business.

LaTeX for Secretaries by Jacek Artymiak: How to survive without Microsoft Word.
Matlab--A Tool for Doing Numerics by Tobias Vancura: An introduction to a command-line program for matrix manipulation.
Remind: The Ultimate Personal Calendar by David F. Skoll: If you have trouble remembering where you are going, this clever program can help you find your way.
LinuxPPC 1999 by Stephane Morvan: How to install Linux on your Power Macintosh to gain a robust alternative to the MacOS.
Open Source/Open Science 1999 by Stephen Adler: Mr. Adler tells us about a first-of-its-kind conference.
Profile: TiVo by Craig Knudsen: The ultimate in recording television programs, TiVo is a set-top box that does everything for you.

LINUX to go by Marjorie Richardson

StarOffice for Dummies by Sid Wentworth

Linux Apprentice: SCSI--Small Computer System Interface by Keith de Solla: Successfully installing a SCSI device on a PC.
Take Command: HFS utilities by Marjorie Richardson: Data on Macintosh disks can be read into Linux quite easily with this tool package.
Linux Means Business: Using Linux at the Aging Research Centre by Jason Neudorf and Steven A. Garan: Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab--I mean, slide.
System Administration: Mark's Mega Multi-Boot Computer by Mark Nielsen: Mark talks about his crazy multi-boot computer, which does have some practical value.
Kernel Korner: Linux 2.4 Spotlight: ISA Plug and Play by Joseph Pranevich: If you are tired of the complexity of configuring PnP devices for Linux, you can look forward to some relief from the 2.4 kernel release.
Linux Gazette: Emacs Macros and the Power-Macros Package by Jesper Pedersen: Writing Emacs macros doesn't have to be hard--Mr. Pedersen helps you get "more power".
Cooking with Linux: Tasty KDE Desktop Themes by Marcel Gagne
At the Forge: More About Searching by Reuven M. Lerner
Focus on Software by David A. Bandel

The Last Word by Stan Kelly-Bootle

T/TCP: TCP for Transactions by Mark Stacey, Ivan Griffin and John Nelson: A discussion of the operation, advantages and flaws of an experimental extension for the TCP protocol.
POSIX Thread Libraries by Felix Garcia and Javier Fernandez: The authors have studied five libraries which can be used for multi-thread applications and herein present the results.
Linux and Open-Source Applications by Peter Jones and M. B. Jorgenson: The building blocks for a secure and trustworthy computer platform.
Laptops for Linux! by Jason Kroll