Daniel Quinlan Issue #2, April-May 1994 The recent release of the Linux FSSTND (short for “filesystem standard”) promises to bring Linux developers together into a more cohesive group. The purpose of this standard is to document an improved and consistent filesystem (directory and file) structure for Linux systems. The first round of discussion on creating a filesystem standard started in ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #2, April-May 1994 In this column, I’ll explore the GNU C Library. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has written an excellent reference manual, available in an electronic form that can be printed or read on-line, but I think that an introduction will help some people get started. Introduction to the GNU C Library In this column, ...

Ian A. Murdock Issue #1, March 1994 The distribution of Linux as a commercial product is unique in the world of computer software in that most commercial Linux enterprises have not developed the systems that they market and sell. Linux is freely-available and freely-redistributable, so anyone who wishes to do so may obtain a Linux distribution and resell it for ...

Matt Welsh Issue #1, March 1994 “Cooking With Linux” is a monthly feature, intended primarily to give the Linux bourgeois an inside look at some of the issues, both humorous and profound, pertinent to the Linux development community. Interested in recipes for virtual memory or virtual beer? Here’s the place. Interested in the politics and structure of the free software ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #1, March 1994 Welcome to the inaugural edition of What’s GNU?, a semi-regular column on the GNU project. The “semi” in semi-regular means that we expect this column to appear in every issue of Linux Journal, but it may not happen occasionally. The content will be a mixture of “What is the GNU project”—history, motivation, status of ...

Phil Hughes Issue #1, March 1994 The df command is used to show the amount of disk space that is free on file systems. In the examples, df is first called with no arguments. This default action is to display used and free file space in blocks. In this particular case, th block size is 1024 bytes as is indicated ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #1, March 1994 In this initial column, I’ll explore porting programs from other Un*x versions to Linux. Porting Un*x applications to Linux is best done, as a general rule, by porting the application to some standard which Linux follows. This way, not only will Linux users benefit from your port, but so will users of other ...

Frank B. Brokken K. Kubat Issue #1, March 1994 In this first part of a three part article, Frank and Karel explore their motivation for writing a new programming “make tool”, the organization of the system itself and where you can get a copy. Part 2 of the article will cover the icmake grammar and the final part will show ...

Linus Torvalds Issue #1, March 1994 This is a general announcement of the imminent code-freeze that will hopefully make Linux 1.0 a reality. The plan has been discussed a bit with various developers already, and is already late, but is still in effect otherwise. In short, the next version of Linux (0.99.15) will be a “full-featured” release, and only obvious ...

/run This is differently and distros use it in slightly different way. It’s a tempFS file system which means it runs in RAM. In other words, everything is gone when system is rebooted or shut down, it’s used for processes that start early in the boot procedure to store runtime information that they use to function. /snap This is a ...