Features

Serial Terminal as Console  by Francesco Conti

Sans video card, sans keyboard, sans monitor: the amazing headless Linux box.

Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Linux Workstation  by Eric S Raymond

These days, it's possible to put together a decent personal Unix Platform for less than $2,000 US.

Thread-Specific Data and Signal Handling in Multi-Threaded Applications  by Martin McCarthy

This second part of a series on Multi-threading deals with how to use C programs with one of the POSIX packages available for Linux to handle signals and concurrent threads

News & Articles

Creating Animations with POV-Ray  by Andy Vaught

The /proc File System and ProcMeter  by Andrew M. Bishop

Somebody Still Uses Assembly Language?  by Richard A. Sevenich

Reviews

Product Review   Applixware 4.2 for Linux  by Gary Moore

Book Review   Active Java and Exploring Java  by Danny Yee

WWWsmith

Using Perl to Check Web Links  by Jim Weirich

At the Forge   Quizzes  by Reuven Lerner

Columns

Letters to the Editor  

From the Publisher   Linux—The Internet Appliance?  by Phil Hughes

Stop the Presses   Usenix/Uselinux in Anaheim  by Phil Hughes

Linux Means Business   Using Linux at Lectra Systemes  by Pierre Ficheux

Novice to Novice   A 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect Linux to the Internet  by Terry Dawson

Take Command   od—The Oddest Little Text Utility Around  by Randy Zack

New Products  

Linux Gazette   Indexing Texts with SMART  by Hans Paijmans

Linux Gazette   History of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format  by Greg Roelofs

Best of Tech Support  by Gena Shurtleff