Kevin P. Lawton Issue #29, September 1996 A software solution that allows you to run PC programs ona SPARC station. By far, the majority of my time involving a computer was spent working with my Sun SPARCstation. I could do almost everything computer related, including e-mail interaction, system administration, net surfing, network Doom (I confess—it was me who circulated that ...

Shay Rojansky Issue #29, September 1996 Linux User Groups all over the world are becoming large and more active. Here’s the story of the Israeli Linux Users’ Group. Working and playing with Linux is fun, but it’s more fun to do it with others. It was for this reason that I was thrilled to hear that a group of people ...

Michael Loukides Andy Oram Issue #29, September 1996 It’s worth making friends with a good C debugger. There are many reasons you might need a debugger—the most obvious being that you’re a programmer and you’ve written an application that doesn’t work right. Beyond this, Linux depends heavily both on sharing source code and on porting code from other Unix systems. ...

Heiko Eissfeldt Issue #28, August 1996 Certifying Linux to POSIX 1.1. Standards Part of the success of Linux is due to its commission to standards. One of the first standards for Unix-like operating systems was POSIX.1 (IEC/ISO 9945-1:1990 or IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990), which specifies the system services, the interface and system limits. It has been adopted by all major Unix ...

Andy Vaught Issue #28, August 1996 If you need to graph data, there are two packages available for Linux under X: Gnuplot and Xmgr. Graphing data is one of the oldest uses for a computer, dating back to FORTRAN programs producing character graphics on line-printers. Fortunately, things have advanced somewhat, and modern computers are capable of producing much nicer graphs. ...

Benjamin Lancki Abhijit Dixit Vipul Gupta Issue #28, August 1996 The proliferation of powerful notebook computers and wireless communication promises to provide users with network access at any time and in any location. Recent advances in hardware and communication technologies have introduced the era of mobile computing. The proliferation of powerful notebook computers and wireless communication promises to provide users ...

David Alan Black Issue #27, July 1996 When you visit a HyperNews article and view a response, you can (depending on local access settings) add your own response to it, start a new thread, or navigate among the threads and responses in various ways. For all the excitement over the Web—some justified, some exaggerated—a case could still be made for ...

John M. Fisk Issue #27, July 1996 This article will attempt to introduce you to one of the most versatile and popular X-Windows managers: fvwm (which, I’ve been told, originally stood for “Frugal Virtual Window Manager”). This article is primarily intended for, and dedicated to, all the novices and newcomers who have joined the worldwide community of Linux users. Welcome ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #27, July 1996 You installed Windows 95, and now you can’t boot Linux. Don’t panic. The fix is simple, and doesn’t require removing Windows or Linux. In spite of all the Linux zealots who infect the comp.os.linux.advocacy Usenet newsgroup with cries for the total elimination of MS-Windows—and usually Microsoft, as well—there are many people who want ...

Gregory A. Meinke Issue #27, July 1996 As Esther Dyson put it, “Using tables to store objects is like driving your car home and then disassembling it to put it in the garage. It can be assembled again in the morning, but one eventually asks whether this is the most efficient way to park a car.” Applications are getting more ...