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Liem Bahneman Issue #8, December 1994 Need to run multiple tasks but have only a standard dial-up connection to the host? Term may be the answer you have been looking for. Term, originally developed by Michael O’Reilly (michael@iinet.com.au), is a program that allows multiple, concurrent connections over a serial line. Term allows almost all “standard” TCP/IP applications to be used ...

Andy Tefft Issue #7, November 1994 Now and then, Andy Tefft will tell us what he ahs been doing with his Linux system, which may give you some ideas for your own system. This month, he installs Mosaic and pays with a clone of the classic board game, Risk. I admit it. I’m hooked on Mosaic. You don’t know what ...

LJ Staff Issue #7, November 1994 Open Systems World and Amsterdam. Open Systems World Linux Journal will be hosting the Linux International Users Conference at the 6th Annual Open Systems World/FedUNIX ’94. The event is being held at the Washington Conference Center, Washington, D.C, during the week of November 28, and the two-day Linux Confer-ence will be on Thursday and ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #7, November 1994 This month’s column discusses groff, the GNU version of troff. groff This month’s column discusses groff, the GNU version of troff. Explaining troff in full detail can (and has!) taken more than one book. For now, we’ll provide a little bit of history and an overview of what groff is, what the input tends ...

LJ Staff Issue #7, November 1994 Linux Journal would like to promote and support user group meetings, and plans on having a column dedicated to LUGs. Is there a Linux User Group meeting in your area that you attend? Would you like to find one? Would you like to start one? Linux Journal would like to promote and support user ...

Jeff Tranter Issue #7, November 1994 A CD-ROM drive is one of the most popular hardware upgrades for personal computers and is becoming a standard peripheral for new systems. In the article, Jeff looks at support for CD-ROM under Linux. CD-ROM stands for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory, a storage medium utilizing an optical laser to read microscopic pits on the ...

Phil Hughes Issue #7, November 1994 In this article Phil Hughes describes the basics of choosing a hardware platform for Linux. Although Linux software is virtually free, the required hardware isn’t. This makes some people hesitate to jump into the Linux movement. But it doesn’t need to be complicated, scary or expensive. Linux runs on most common hardware. In this ...

Ian Murdock Issue #6, October 1994 In previous columns Ian introduced the Debian system, explained the circumstances that led to its creation and detailed the motivations that keep the project alive. This month’s column will tell the reader how and where to get Debian and what it has to offer. Debian differs from other Linux distributions in many ways, a ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #6, October 1994 This month’s column discusses the Texinfo document formatting language, which is used for all GNU documentation. Its main feature is that one source file can be used to prepare both printed text, and on-line, hypertext-style documentation. We will just cover the high points of Texinfo. There is a complete manual (around 200 pages) that ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #6, October 1994 Most Linux users have at least heard of Makefiles, but many do not know how powerful a program make is. It is thought of as a tool for maintaining other programs, but it is far more. It can make sense out of chaos in any project where some files are created from other ...