Various Issue #50, June 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Multithread Applications Which library do I need to use for multithread applications? I found pthread.h in /usr/include/, but I didn’t find libthread.a in /usr/lib/ as I can in AIX. —Ju Rao Slackware There is an excellent threads library available called LinuxThreads. You can download the latest version from ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Xavier.Leroy/. ...

Chris DiBona Issue #50, June 1998 Linus Torvalds tells the Silicon Valley users group about his current work on the Linux kernel. When we gave the job of arranging speakers to Sam Ockman, we never doubted his ability to bring in terrific speakers. His first speaker, for our January meeting, was his personal hero, H. Peter Anvin. For February, we ...

Tony Mancill Issue #50, June 1998 Here’s another great use for Linux; Mr. Mancill tells us why his company picked Linux routers over the big names. Every time I deploy a Linux system for my company, the phrase “Linux in a production environment? It’ll never happen,” stills echoes through my head. At a previous employer, this was the pat answer ...

John Blair Issue #50, June 1998 Author John Blair talks to two members of the Samba development team to discover some history and take a look at the future of the project. Andrew Tridgell and Jeremy Allison together have written the majority of the code in Samba, the popular SMB (Windows Networking) file server for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ...

Steve Whitehouse Issue #50, June 1998 Mr. Whitehouse gives us an introduction to a free software package for manipulating images—ImageMagick. Ever since the first computers with graphical displays, computer editing and transformation of images has been one of the most popular application areas. There should be little surprise that there is a multiplicity of free graphic software available under Linux. ...

Peter J. Braam Issue #50, June 1998 Carnegie Mellon University has developed an exciting file system. Mr. Braam, one of the developers, tells us all about it. The Coda distributed file system is a state-of-the-art experimental file system developed in the group of M. Satyanarayanan at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Numerous people contributed to Coda, which now incorporates many features ...

Various Issue #49, May 1998 Our experts answer your technical questions. Viruses I would like to know what can be said about viruses in a Linux system which is installed on the same hard disk as Win95. For example, what can happen if a virus infects the MBR sector (where resides LILO) or if I mount an infected MS-DOS formatted ...

Ph.D.. Graydon Ekdahl, Issue #49, May 1998 A fun way to look at the issue of the development of a universal GUI. Don Quixote: Ahhh, Sancho, think of it! A single GUI interface that would allow me to write my application once and then run it on Windows, OS2 Warp and Linux boxes without changing one line! Maybe even on ...

Andrew M. Kuchling Issue #49, May 1998 A Python SIG has put together a DB-API standard; Mr. Kuchling gives us the details. Many people use Python because, like other scripting languages, it is a portable, platform-independent and general-purpose language that can perform the same tasks as the database-centric, proprietary 4GL tools supplied by database vendors. Like 4GL tools, Python lets ...

George Kraft IV Issue #49, May 1998 A major strength of the Common Desktop Evnironment is its programming infrastructure, for example, ToolTalk. This article illustrates client and server plug-and-play through the use of the Desktop’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). ToolTalk, in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), is a message brokering system that enables applications to communicate with each other without ...