Various Issue #31, November 1996 Our experts answer your technical questions. Bootable Kernels and Slackware Installation I have a new scsi controller (aha2940) which my only hard drive is connected to. I can get the latest boot disk for my controller, but the kernel that gets installed by Slackware is unbootable. How do I use the kernel on my boot ...

Bill Binko Issue #31, November 1996 First in a series of articles detailing the creation of a Java interface to Postgres95. Java’s native methods are functions written in C (or another compiled language) and dynamically loaded by the Java interpreter at run time. They provide the means to access libraries that have not been ported to Java, and also allow ...

Andreas Beck Steffen Seeger Issue #31, November 1996 The Linux-CGI Project goals are explained—what it intends to accomplish and how it will do it. Introduction In this article, we will explain the intentions and goals of the Linux-GGI Project along with the basic concepts used by the GGI programmers to allow fast, easy to use access to graphical services, hide ...

Amy Wood Issue #31, November 1996 A Techmical Director of Toy Story gives us the scoop from Pixar Studios. Amy Wood, the graphics/layout artist for Linux Journal interviewed Larry Gritz of Pixar Animation Studios on August 16. AmyI understand that you were a Technical Director for the latest great animation feature film, Toy Story. Can you tell us what you ...

Arman Danesh Issue #31, November 1996 Are you an absolute beginner? Here’s a brief introduction to using the JDK. Java has taken the Internet and programming communities by storm during the past year with its promise to enable the creation of software that can run on any platform from a single binary file and be used securely in a distributed ...

Various Issue #29, September 1996 Our experts answer your technical questions. Several readers have requested a forum where short, specific questions—especially those regarding installation and setting up a Linux system—could be answered. Others have expressed a desire for better, more specific, information on how to use each of the various Linux distributions. In an effort to fill these needs we ...

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 ...