Best of Technical Support Various Issue #58, February 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Pre-installed Slackware I picked up a used laptop that has Slackware partitioned on the hard drive. Is there any way to log in to it without the password? I have a UNIX book but it does not address this problem. Do I have to re-install? ...

Kalle Dalheimer Issue #58, February 1999 Mr. Dalheimer describes some of the plans being made for future versions of KDE.   The K Desktop Environment (KDE, see http://www.kde.org/) has already generated a lot of interest, and many individual users and institutions alike are using it as their desktop environment of choice. However, nothing is so good that it doesn’t have ...

Miguel de Icaza Issue #58, February 1999 What is GNOME and where is it heading? Miguel tells us all. GNOME is an acronym for GNU’s Network Object Model Environment. GNOME addresses a number of issues that have not previously been addressed in the UNIX world, such as: Providing a consistent user interface. Providing user-friendly tools and making them powerful by ...

Wayne J. Salamon Issue #58, February 1999 This article describes how to configure Linux-based PCs and an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch to build on ATM network. The Linux ATM software (device driver and utilities) is developed and supported by Werner Almsberger in Switzerland as part of the Linux-ATM API software set (see Resources). This software contains device drivers for ...

Brian Harvey Issue #58, February 1999 Mr. Harvey tells us about the VNC software package and how to set it up to control MS Windows servers from Linux.     In today’s changing world, an increasing number of UNIX system administrators are finding they need to support Windows NT servers in their work environments. Whether Exchange or application servers, NT ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #57, January 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. umask Trouble I’m trying to use umask to set permissions in a directory, but it doesn’t allow me to set execute. I use umask a=rwx and when I create a new file the permissions are -rw-rw-rw-. Can you give me a quick explanation of this ...

Dean Staff Issue #57, January 1999 Canada has a “Linux Day”–a novel method for getting the word out. Saturday, September 26, 1998 was a big day for the Linux community in Canada—the First Canadian National Linux InstallFest was held. The InstallFest was organized on a national level by CLUE (Canadian Linux Users’ Exchange) to provide experienced help to those interested ...

Bob Zimbinski Issue #57, January 1999 How to get this most popular game to run on your Linux system. Quake is one of the coolest games available for any platform. Thanks to Dave Taylor, who began id Software’s tradition of porting their games to Linux back in 1995 with Linux Doom, today we have Quake for Linux. This article is ...

Tuomas Lukka Issue #57, January 1999 Mr. Lukka takes a look at VRML basics including scripting, animation and applications. VRML is intended to be for virtual reality what HTML is for text—a structured, standard, cross-platform format for static or interactive hyperlinked content. Just like HTML, it can be written by hand or generated by a program (the latter is usually ...

Randy Appleton Issue #57, January 1999 A look at the Linux kernel scheduler. One of the most important tasks of an operating system kernel is to manage processes and threads. A process is a program in execution, and a thread is just a CPU state stored within a process. A CPU context is either a process or a thread. Most ...