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Welcome to the LinuxFocus November/December 2002 issue

Yes, LinuxFocus is 5 years old! It started in November 1997 when Miguel put the first issue together with some friends. Since then it has developed into a really big knowledge base with a lot of different articles. From the original team only John Perr is still with us. In 1997 I was still a Linux newbie and had Slackware running for just over one year. When I discovered the magazine at the beginning of 1998 I was fascinated by the idea of a free international magazine. The quality of the articles was good and it was an "honest" magazine. Quite in contrast to many commercial magazines full of advertisements and product reviews financed by the manufactures. I still remember that I couldn't wait for the next issue to come out. When it was there I read the articles until late in the night. And I started to write articles myself. Of course it was a shock to see that the original LinuxFocus team wanted to give up after the January 1999 issue and so I became editor in chief... Over the years the site changed from editing every article manually to a more manageable system that separates content and layout. The layout is generated by scripts.

LinuxFocus continued with a team of new and old people but it kept its original spirit until today.

Happy Birthday!

-- Guido

Hardware

• A Microcontroller based DC power supply , by Guido Socher
  
  In this article we build a very robust Microcontroller regulated power supply for your "lab" at home.

Kernel Corner

• Fail Safe Port Allocation for Linux Device Drivers , by Dr. B. Thangaraju
  
  Writing a device driver is a challenging and an adventurous job. Once the device is registered in the driver's init_module routine, the resources for the device should be allocated. One of the main resources for the device is I/O port. For dynamically linked drivers, the developer should be careful to allocate unused range of port addresses for their device.

Software Development

• Concurrent programming - Principles and introduction to processes , by Leonardo Giordani
  
  This series of articles has the purpose of introducing the reader to the concept of multitasking and to its implementation in the Linux operating system.

• Developing Applications for Gnome with Python (Part 3) , by Hilaire Fernandes
  
  This series of articles is especially written for newbie programmers using Gnome and GNU/Linux.

Unix Basics

• (X)dialog: Talking shells , by Katja and Guido Socher
  
  Xdialog and dialog are two classic utilities to enhance your shell scripts with a graphical user interface.

Articles at Linux Netmag (NVCLOCK - The tuning tool) Chipdrive - Reading chipcards ATA, UDMA and hdparm Setting Up a Firewall with SuSE Linux Installation of a LDAP server Answering machine with remote control Samba as a M$Win2000 domain controler

System Administration

• Root-kits and integrity , by Frédéric Raynal
  
  This article presents the different operations a cracker can do after having succeeded in entering a machine. We will also discuss what an administrator can do to detect that the machine has been jeopardized.

• Installing a LAMP System , by Sascha Blum
  
  LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP.

Applications

Articles at Linux Gazette The MailBag More 2-Cent Tips The Answer Gang News Bytes By Michael Conry Office Linux -- Feedback By Matthias Arndt Adding Plugin Capabilities To Your Code By Tom Bradley Ecol By Javier Malonda Making Your Own Toy Boot Floppy By Muhammad Torabi Dashti How main() is executed on Linux By Hyouck "Hawk" Kim Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Misnamed Files By Ben Okopnik The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers By Mike ("Iron") Orr Programming Bits: Meeting C# and Mono By Ariel Ortiz Ramirez Qubism By Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem Debian APT Part 1: Basic Commands By Rob Tougher Using the Logical Volume Manager By Vinayak Hegde The Back Page

• Mozilla dissected , by Floris Lambrechts
  
  A review of the Mozilla Webbrowser.

• Gorm and ProjectCenter, the GNUstep RAD tools , by Georges Tarbouriech
  
  RAD stands for Rapid Application Development.

• Using PGPLOT for interactive graphics under Linux , by Baybora Baran and Seckin Gokaltun
  
  In this article you will learn how to write an interactive graphics program in Fortran.

The LinuxFocus Tip

strip /the/compiled/binary

/usr/bin# ls -l kmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2363005 Apr 17 17:04 kmail
/usr/bin# strip kmail
/usr/bin# ls -l kmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2004492 Sep 1 14:27 kmail

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