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Marjorie Richardson Issue #44, December 1997 I did an interview with Larry Augustin, founder and President of VA Research, by e-mail on August 19, 1997.     VA Research was founded in 1993 to develop affordable workstation, server and Internet products using the Linux operating system. I did an interview with Larry Augustin, their founder and President, by e-mail on ...

Michael J. Hammel Issue #44, December 1997 This second article in the series introduces us to the basic features of the GIMP, a Linux power tool for the graphics artist. Last month, in the first of this four-part series on the GIMP, we took a quick tour around the GIMP’s installation and system requirements. This month we’ll cover a few ...

Sam Williams Issue #44, December 1997 This report on the HP conference freatures the announcement by Hewlett Packard of a port of MkLinux to its HP PA-RISC machines. It may seem odd to be reading about an HP conference in Linux Journal. The fact of the matter is that interest in Linux is growing world wide. Many hardware vendors are ...

Joe Kaplenk Issue #44, December 1997 A teacher at the College of DuPage in Illinois, has found that teaching system administration to beginners is both easy and cost-effective using Yggdrasil Linux.               College of DuPage There are several handicaps inherent in teaching a class in Unix administration in an academic environment. In order to ...

David Mosberger Issue #43, November 1997 Part 2 brings us optimization techniques for speeding up code to get the best performance from your Alpha or other RISC processor. In this article, I will discuss techniques to optimize code for platforms running Linux on Alpha processors. It is based on four years of experience with the Alpha architecture. The primary lesson ...

Dave Thomson Issue #43, November 1997 A few simple design guidelines are presented to make your games more enjoyable to the players. Sweets are first tasted by the eye, but flavour is the heart and soul of all confectionery. –John Millar (1826-1896) It’s called a joystick because games are fun—or at least they’re meant to be. Of course, I doubt ...

David Sugar Issue #43, November 1997 Using Linux as a base to implement advanced telphony applications. In “Let Linux Speak” (LJ, January, 1997), I demonstrated some fun applications for the SPO256 text-to-speech board. Buried in that article was a brief discussion on the potential for using text-to-speech as a telephony resource and for using Linux as a telephony services platform. ...

Larry Ayers Issue #43, November 1997 Larry Ayers, author of many articles for both Linux Journal and Linux Gazette, interviews Robert Nation, the creator of FVWM and RXVT.         The Interview Robert Nation’s name crops up often in the man pages and other documentation of Linux software. He was involved in the early development of several key ...

Karel Kubat Issue #43, November 1997 Would you like to publish the texts you write in more than one format—PostScript for printing, plain ASCII for e-mail, and HTML for the a web page? YODL could be just the language you need. I wrote the first version of YODL in late 1995 and early 1996, as a general document language for ...

Paul Dunne Issue #43, November 1997 Here’s how to get sound to your speakers using a driver instead of a sound card. Linux supports most of the popular sound cards. If you don’t have a sound card, you can still get a degree of sound support from the humble speaker that came with your PC. In this article, I will ...