Index by LinuxFocus issue

This is an index of all LinuxFocus articles sorted by issue.

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November2000

• Dicovering Ted
  

• GNU utilities
  

• Network File System (NFS)
  Network File System (NFS) is a tool to manage files spread among several computers on a network as if they were on the same local machine. So, the final user does not have to worry of the exact location of its own files in order to access them.

• An Introduction to Tk
  This articles explain how to build a graphical interface using the Toolkit of Tcl: Tk. The reader should also appreciate the simplicity of this toolkit compared to usual X-Windows libraries.

• xinetd - extented Internet services daemon
  xinetd - extented Internet services daemon - provides an excellent security against the intrusions, and limit certain risks of attacks by Deny of Services ( DoS ). It allows, just like the most known pair ( inetd + tcpd ), to set access control to a computer, but its capacities extend well beyond. This article proposes you to discover them.

• Once upon a time... or commercial Unix vs free Unix
  Why choosing between a commercial or a free Unix

• High Availablity systems under Linux
  What is High Availibility, why it is important and how to implement it using Linux.

September2000

• Slackware 7.0 part I: Installation Guide
  The author describes in detail the installation of the Slackware 7.0 Linux distribution. This article is written for beginners.

• Magicpoint
  This article reviews the possibility of MagicPoint. This software is one of the very few that allow creation of presentations under X-Windows.

• Bastille Linux
  Available by the beginning of june,version 1.1 of Bastille-Linux is not a new Linux Distribution but a set of security scripts. The authors have adopted a very pedagogic approach and one can learn a lot simply installing these scripts.

• Book review: Professional PHP Programming
  This article,reviews the book Professional PHP Programming,a Programmer to programmer collection from WROX press.

• Approaching Vector Linux
  Review of a mini linux distribution

• REBOL the rebel
  Let's say REBOL is a messaging language, but as a matter of fact, it's much more than that.

• Reporting bugs on Debian 2.2
  How that Debian 2.2 is released, a lot of people will upgrade to new newest Debian distro. Since Debian is extremely stable, why do you need a bug report tool? I do not know, but you cannot write software without bugs, so bugs will be found. This article explains how to submit them to the developers of the package.

• Building Scalable ISPs with opensource softwares
  In my last article, I introduced you to using LDAP on Linux. In this article, we will build a scalable ISP that can scale from one to any number of backend machines. The backbone of setting up this ISP is LDAP.

July2000

• Pseudo 3D with Gimp
  How to use Gimp for 3D graphics

• Virtual Network Computing
  The dream of the network administrator come true

• An Introduction to Perl's XML::XSLT module
  This article demonstrates some of the capabilities of the W3C's XSLT standard and how it can be used to help you manage and publish XML documents to the web.

• Using LDAP under Linux
  This article will talk about the benifits of deploying LDAP in an organisation and how to implement it on Linux.

• Developing Gnome Application with Python (Part 1)
  This series of articles is especially written for beginner in Gnome programming and GNU/Linux.

• Installing Debian packages of LinuxFocus
  Article on how to install the Debian package of LinuxFocus.

• Using Serial Line LCD displays under Linux
  This article show how to use the BLC2021 PC-Bay Insert serial line display from Matrix Orbital under Linux.

May2000

• Apache : Part I
  This article is an introduction to the HTTP protocol it takes also a look at the history of the World Wide Web.

• Sendmail and Fetchmail: A local mail server.
  Sendmail is a powerful but complex software. This article explains how to configure sendmail and fetchmail for use on a typical home computer.

• Arkeia, a professional and commercial network backup solution
  Arkeia 4.2.3-1 is the latest version of a commercial and professional network backup solution from Knox Software.

• Building DHCP automatically
  This article explains how to configure easiliy DHCP on a network.

• Setting up IP-Masquerading
  IP-Masquerading provides the possibility to connect several computers to the Internet using a computer running Linux with just one public IP address.

• Making PDF documents with DocBook
  This article describes how you can use DocBook to develop PDF documents and covers tools you need to edit DocBook articles and tools to translate them to PDF documents.

• Mastering the VI editor
  The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but many beginning users avoid using VI because the different features overwhelm them.

March2000

• Linux RT, part III
  In this article a simple electric circuit is used to process commands from any infra-red remote control.

• NEdit, the universal editor in Unix world
  Nedit is a remarkable editor. Unfortunately it is not included in most Linux distributions and therefore not as well known as other editors.

• Product review: SNiFF+ for Linux
  SNiFF+ is an integrated development environment for Linux. TakeFive Software provides a download version (limited to 200 files) free of charge.

• Booting three different operating systems: RedHat Linux 5.2, SCO Openserver 5.0.5 and Windows NT 4.0
  

• The uCsimm kit
  This article describes the uCsimm kit and the UClinux project: Porting the linux kernel on hardware without MMU (memory management unit).

• Using Apache ProxyPass to access servers behind a Masquarading
  This article demonstrates how to make a webserver behind a firewall available on the internet without changing rules on your firewall or compromising security.

January2000

• FSViewer, a File Manager for WindowMaker
  Among the revolutionary tools of NeXTStep, the first in order of appearance on the screen was indisputably the File Viewer. Thanks to the path-view in that File Manager you always knew where you were. It was more than a manager, it was a true browser. FSViewer is a NeXTStep a like File Manager for WindowMaker.

• WindowMaker the spirit of NextStep
  Window Maker 0.61.1 is the latest release of a NeXT look-alike window manager.

• Recycling Ip Addresses with Apache
  This article demonstrates how to serve multiple virtual web servers using the same Ip address with Apache on Unix/Linux.

• VXE, a Linux security tool
  Serge Lozovsky presents a software package that he developed to make UNIX systems more secure.

• Home Networking, glossary and overview
  This article explains hardware and networking terminology

• How to partition your hard drive for Linux
  Thomas explains how he has chosen to partition his hard disk.

• Perl part III
  This article explains how to use arrays in Perl.

November1999

• Creating fire effects with The GIMP
  In this article we show a procedure to creat fire effects with The GIMP in five steps

• Game Review - FreeCiv
  FreeCiv is an open source clone of Sid Meier's popular Civilisation

• Tux's secret obsession - Gaming under Linux
  This is a short overview over the gaming scene under Linux.

• Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux
  The advantages of a vectorial representation over bitmap is that files are smaller and the image can be enlarged significantly without differences in rendering (pixellisation). Sketch is written in Python, an object oriented interpreted programming language.

• How to use a Ramdisk for Linux
  This article shows how to use RAM as a virtual harddisk.

• Speeding up small databases on Linux
  A Ramdisk can be used to make small PostgreSQL databases really fast.

• Perl II
  In the second part of the Perl tutorial we write our first real program.

September1999

• Awk
  Examples on how to use AWK

• Nerdbank - a banking initiative for open interfaces
  Nerdbank is a project to develop an open and secure banking system for worldwide electronic money transactions.

• How to use your CD-ROM under Linux
  This article gives a short but useful description on how to use your CD-ROM under Linux.

• Dialog - a programming language for dialogs
  Dialog is a programming language to program dialogs in games and computer simulations

• The Tcl Syntax
  This article explains basics concept and syntax of the Tcl language

• Building text files with m4 macros
  This article shows how to use m4 macros

• Perl I
  This is the start of a Perl tutorial

July1999

• PostScript III, Arrays, Variables, Loops and Macro Definitions
  This is the continuation of two previous articles about postscript.

• How to remove windows
  This article describes how to remove Windows and give the diskspace to Linux without re-installing it

• Funny shell commands
  Some interessting answers form your Unix c-shell

• PostScript Part II: The Operand Stack
  The author describes the operand stack of the PostScript language. The stack manipulations and mathematical operators are presented here.

• Interview with Dennis Ritchie
  Dennis Ritchie is the one who developed C and Unix.

• RenderMan Part III
  This article discusses he posibility of modeling and animating a scene using C or C!+

• f-CPU Project: Attempting the "even harder"
  The fPU project attempts to develop a microprocessor like the present ones ollowing a development scheme close to the one guiding important free software projects.

• Japanese on Linux Part I
  This article takes a brief overview at how to make your Linux system Japanese-capable.

January1999

• An autoguided Vehicle Based on Linux
  

• Installation and Configuration of a Raid-system
  RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) consists of a series of systems to organize several disk drives into a single entity that behaves as a single virtual drive but making the various disks work in parallel thus improving the access performance and saving the information stored from accidental crashes.

• Happy Hacking Keyboard
  Product review of the Happy Hacking Keyboard

• PG2CGI Access to Databases from the Web
  We describe a new program that allows one accessing a database from HTML pages.

• File Access Permissions
  This article is divided into two parts: The first part (Basic file access permissions) is a very short introduction to the basic file permission concept under Unix. The second part (T-bit, SUID and SGID) covers more advanced features of Linux that go beyond the basic "read-write-execute" flags.

• Java. Part II
  The second part of a tutorial about java

November1998

• Basic UNIX commands
  Simple introduction to some of the basic UNIX tools

• Interview with David Bagley
  David Bagley is the current maintainer of xlock, a popular X Window screen saver and locking utility.

• PostScript Part II: The Operand Stack
  The author describes the operand stack of the PostScript language. The stack manipulations and mathematical operators are presented here.

• Linux on a Sony Vaio 505gx
  How to install Linux on a Sony Vaio 505gx

• Easy Graphics: A Beginner's Guide to SVGAlib
  

October1998

• Linux as an Educational Tool in Undergraduate Labs
  The author describes a first hand account of how linux is changing the face of research labs in educational institutions in Turkey.

September1998

• An Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot
  An advanced article that explains how to bootstrap your computer from a program stored in non-volatile memory without accessing your hard disk.

• Finding Files
  How to search for files by name or content.

• Enabling Chinese on Linux
  This brief article describes how to enable chinese locale on a "standard" linux box.

• Interview with Juan Jose Amor
  Juan Jose Amor Iglesias Current coordinator of the LuCAS project, part of the LDP and devoted to the translation and localization of MDL manuals in Spanish

July1998

• Design of Recursive Structures. POVRAY III
  The author explores the use of iterative structures within POVRAY and the beautifull images that they can generate.

• Creating and Editing Animations with GIMP
  Simple techniques to create and edit animations using the Gimp

• Enlightenment
  Enlightenment is a highly customizable window manager for Linux. This article discusses the features, installation, and customization of the Enlightenment window manager.

• Regular Expressions
  Regular expressions are advanced search patters. This Article gives an introduction.

• Linux among artists at BUF COMPAGNIE
  BUF Company is a major syhthetic image maker in the film business.

• The StarOffice Suite (Word Processor)
  

• Real-Time Linux II
  In this second issue devoted to RT-Linux I will try to offer a more practical view of RT-Linux.

• Programming with Java. Part I
  This is the first article in a series about Java programming. The first part will describe Java as a language, its general characteristics and the location of the most relevant sources of information.

• MySQL. A Database Server
  MySQL is an SQL (Structured Query Language) database server supported by a number of platforms, including Linux. Its Linux version is design with fast performance in mind.

• SQL Tutorial Part II
  Part II of the tutorial reviews several basic statements of the SQL language.

• Adding Security to Common Linux Distributions
  How to modify a Linux distribution out of the box to get better security.

• TCPD and Firewalls using IPFWADM
  This article describes very briefly how to configure the inetd services in order to improve security on your system. We concentrate in the of the tool IPFWADM to administer and configure inetd services

• RenderMan: Basics on Camera Positioning
  Although the positioning is not as intuitive as Pov-Ray, it has an advantage when describing camera trajectories.

May1998

• MindsEye: 3D Modeling
  About 2 years ago, when linux was still very much a hackers operating system, the idea popped up to start work on a renderer/modeler/animation program for Linux.

• Writing Text with Gimp
  The graphics corner continues to review and compare two good Image manipulation tools: Photoshop and Gimp. Our reviewers explore the creation of text banners.

• Creating a (Somewhat Useful) Version of Linux
  Follow this article and learn how to create your own set of boot/root disks under Linux.

• Introduction to SQL. (SQL Part I) and installation of PostgreSQL
  A SQL tutorial intended for novice database developers.

• The X Display Manager
  The X Display Manager runs as a daemon on a host machine and manages multiple X displays.

• StarOffice for Linux
  This article reviews the applications available in the suite StarOffice 4.0. The author gives us a demonstration using tool for the creation of presentations. (functionally similar to Microsoft's Power Point).

• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX
  The goal of this article is provide managers in coorporations with the data and comparisons necessary to make well-informed decissions cocerning the installation of servers for the corporate environment. All the information presented in this article summarizes the experience of a number of information systems professionals.

• RenderMan
  Who has not heard of Pixar? Who has not seen "Toy Story"? Pixar developed RenderMan.

• The Postscript Language
  This is the first one of a series of articles about PostScript.

• Real-Time Linux
  Basic Concepts of Real-Time.

• Introduction to DNS
  You may have wondered what happens behind the scenes in Netscape after you enter a URL. This article will help you to understand the name-lookup process.

• OpenGL: the 3D Scene
  Explore the bolts and nuts of 3D rendering with OpenGL.

• GLUT: using Menus
  Our GL Utility Toolkit series continues, examining the windows menu programming interface with a simple example.

• POVRAY II: Basic Notions
  This is the second article on a series about Povray. This time we review some general concepts and start describing the basic elements of the language.

• Writing Text with PhotoShop
  The graphics corner continues to review and compare two good Image manipulation tools: Photoshop and Gimp. Our reviewers explore the creation of text banners.

March1998

• Hardware Review: OpenGL & GLUT with Voodoo 3Dfx in Mind
  How to program OpenGL on a Voodoo 3Dfx graphic card.

• Configuring X
  What are all those dotfiles for anyway?

• Interview with Miguel de Icaza
  Miguel de Icaza gives us an interesting peek at a selected group of linux kernel developers. He is involved with the Linux/Sparc, Gnome project and RedHat's Lab.

• Through the Window
  Some notes about window managers.

• Interview with Linus Torvalds
  Linus Torvalds talks about the past and future of Linux and shares his opinions on current events

• OpenGL Programming: More about Lines
  The Author describes more of the line rendering capabilities of OpenGL

• GLUT Programming: Windows Management
  This article explains the usage of the GLUT windows management sub-API

• POVRAY I: First Steps
  This article begins a series about the Povray raytracer.

• Lyx Review
  Lyx is an editor with fantastic possibilities. Ismael gives us a little overview.

• Building, Installing and Configuring sendmail 8.8.x
  This is a copy of a Mini HOWTO on sendmail

• Graphical Photocomposition with Photoshop
  A comparison between Photoshop and Gimp

• Graphical Photocomposition with The Gimp
  A comparison between Photoshop and Gimp

January1998

• Straight from the Horse's Mouth
  Bill Gates on customer support

• Enabling Profile on the Alpha
  Tips for users of a DEC-Alpha

• Setting Up a ZIP drive on an Alpha platform
  Tips for users of a DEC-Alpha

• ECC2-79 cracked: Alpha Linux did it
  

• Mail From Our Readers
  E-mail feedback after the first isseu of Linuxfocus went out

• What is OpenGL?
  This article is the first in a series about OpenGL, perhaps the most succesful API for high-end 3D graphics

• GLUT programming:Windows and Animations
  GLUT is the GL Utility Toolkit, developed by Mark Kilgard. In this article the author introduces GLUT, and gives us a primer on Windows and Animations handling with GLUT.

• OpenGL Programming:Simple Polygon Rendering
  The author describes the first steps into any OpenGL application and tells us how to render simple polygons in 2D.

• 3Dfx graphics card
  3Dfx Interactive's 3D chipset is changing the world of high-end graphics.

• Kernel Secrets
  A short description of the Linux Kernel.

• Debugging Code with ddd
  ddd is a wonderful graphical debugger.

• Network Management and Monitoring with Linux
  Some handy tools for managing today's ubiquitous networks

• Getting Linux to Run a Computer with an Alpha CPU
  The author share with us his experiences putting together an Alpha PC

November1997

• What is Linux?
  A brief history of Linux

• Installation of Manpages-es
  How to get man-pages of the most important Linux system commands in Spanish.

• Conneting to the Internet
  Here we have something lots of users face up to in their early stages of setting Linux up: Connecting to the Internet.

• I got Linux Installed, What next?
  This article introduces new users to some of the issues that he/she will confront upon installation of Linux.

• Some Tips
  Well...here are some notes, tricks, some of these are specific to non-english speaking users and therefore not frequently answered in the common documentation.

• Making Shared Libraries
  How to compile and generate shared libraries.

• PGP Under Linux
  The author gives an introduction to PGP.

• Managing Your Mail with procmail
  Keep you mail on folders, respond automaticaly, create mailing lists, learn how to do these and much more with procmail.

• Linux in Hospitals
  Linux means business, an example of using Linux in the health care environment.