LJ 48: Linux Journal Contents, April 1998

Emphasis: Workplace Solutions

Using Linux in a Control and Robotics Lab by Jon Davis: How a lab at Queen's University is using Linux to develop programs and control hardware experiments.
Biomedical Research and Linux by Roger S. Flugel: Linux is readily establishing itself in the biomedical field as a powerful and reliable system for research computing.
Latvian Government Uses Linux by Dmitrie Komarov: Mr. Komarov tells us how he used Linux to give an old database new capabilities and thereby saved his government money.
Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans by Simon J. Keogh, Emmanouil Oikonomou, Daniel Ballestero and: Presented here is an overview of the kind of remote sensing that is done at Southampton University and how Linux has helped improve our productivity.
Small Business Marketing of Linux by Cliff Seruntine: Linux is a good business product. This article deals with the why, how and who of selling Linux.

Building Projects With Imake by Otto Hammersmith: Here's an explanation of how Imake works and how you can use it to build your executables--an article for programmers with C and Unix programming skills.
Linux Network Programming, Part 3: CORBA: The Software Bus by Ivan Griffin, Mark Donnelly and John Nelson: This month we are presented with an introduction to the networking of distributed objects and the use of CORBA.
Financial Calculation Programs for Linux by James Shapiro: Mr. Shapiro shows us how to write a program to compute internal rate of return using three programming languages supported by Linux--Perl, C and Java.
LJ Interviews Mr. Eid Eid of Corel Computer by Marjorie Richardson
Helping Netscape Make History by Eric S. Raymond: Netscape source is now free, who would have thought it? Eric Raymond, that's who. Here are his insights into this momentous event.

At the Forge: Using What We've Learned by Reuven M. Lerner: This month Mr. Lerner shows us how to set up a web site using many of the techniques he's taught us over the past months.

Letters to the Editor
From the Editor: Workplace Solutions by Marjorie Richardson
Stop the Presses: The Software world--It's a Changin' by Phil Hughes
New Products
System Administration: Managing your Logs with Chklogs by Emilio Grimaldo
An introduction to a program written by Mr. Grimaldo to manage system logs.
Kernel Corner Writing a Linux Driver by Fernando Matia: The main goal of this article is to learn what a driver is, how to implement a driver for Linux and how to integrate it into the operating system. An article for the experienced C programmer.
Linux Gazette: Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator by Jesper Pedersen
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