Mark Bolzern Issue #13, May 1995 How old is Linux? The Linux project was started about four years ago, but the Linux distributions are really far more than four years old. Linux is the product of many years of hard work. Everyone knows that the Linux operating system was created from scratch about four years ago, right? Actually, while the ...

Brian A. Lantz Issue #13, May 1995 In an effort to corrupt the readers of Linux Journal, Brian asks you to take a pair of hypothetical binoculars (preferable of the “X-ray” genre so popular in old comic books) and become a “Peeping Tom” with him, looking into two very different homes. The first house has something very different about it, ...

Dan Hollis Issue #13, May 1995 JCICNet, an Internet Services Provider, uses Linux to serve its customers. Here’s why. I’m the system administrator for JCICNet, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides public access Internet services for Southern Oregon. This article explains why we use Linux and describes some of our experiences with it as an ISP. These days, one ...

Arthur Bebak Issue #13, May 1995 To sail the cyber sea. Purportedly, this article is about how an “obscure” operating system called Linux was used to launch a happy band of netsurfers into the wild ocean of the Internet. But it is really a rousing tale of adventure and discovery—with Linux playing the part of a trusty ship. That ship ...

Kurt Reisler Issue #12, April 1995 Linux Torvalds will be speaking at eh Spring US DECUS Symposium in Washington D.C. this May. Once again, the US Chapter of DECUS, the DEC Users Group, is bringing Linus Torvalds, famous for his work with Linux (and for feeding Australian penguins) to the Spring US DECUS Symposium. This event is scheduled for the ...

Eric Youngdale Issue #12, April 1995 The Executable and Linking Format (ELF) has been a popular topic lately. People wonder why the kernel configuations script asks whether or not to donfigure loading ELF executables. As ELF will eventually be the common object file format for Linux binaries, it is appropriate to document it a bit. This month, Eric introduces us ...

Matt Welsh Issue #12, April 1995 If you happen to be visiting Amsterdam for business, leisure, or, say, and International Linux Symposium, these important travel tips might come in handy. Ah, Europe. There’s no place like it. Except for, maybe, certain neighborhoods in Chicago, but there it’s easier to get through customs. At any rate, not long ago I had ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #12, April 1995 This month’s column concludes the article on Plan 9 From Bell Labs, and those parts of it that have been re-implemented in freely available software. Last month we described the origins of Plan 9, the sam editor, and the 9term terminal emulator. Well, what about the shell to run inside the window? Here too, ...

Kim Johnson Issue #11, March 1995 Kim provides insightful answers to some of the most frequently asked questions. Linux Journal had double-duty in Washington, D.C. this December at Open Systems World—in addition to running a two-day “Linux Conference”, we also had a booth in the exhibit hall where we handed out magazines, sold books and distributions, and answered questions about ...

Greg Hankins Issue #11, March 1995 Greg Hankins describes how to install Slackware Linux over a network. One of the easiest and quickest ways to install Linux is over a network, using NFS (Network File System). All you need is a machine that has the full Linux distribution available for NFS mounting. In this article, I’ll describe in detail how ...