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Issue #6, October 1994

Linux Symposium in Amsterdam and Linux Track at Open Systems World.

Linux Symposium in Amsterdam, December

The International Symposium on Linux […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #6, October 1994

For Internauts, finding a port of call can be a trying experience. I recently ran the gauntlet of choosing a commercial Internet access provider (do I have […]

Linus Torvalds

Issue #6, October 1994

Lots of other stuff has also changed in the 1.1.x releases; sorry for not doing release-notes, but I’m too lazy.

Linus Announces Code Freeze in […]

Laurie Tucker

Issue #6, October 1994

We know that at least a few of you are curious about those other folks.

Do you ever wonder who else reads Linux Journal? “No” you say? All your bes […]

Magnus Y. Alvestad

Issue #6, October 1994

The secratary of this volunteer group gives us the scoop on two Linux distributions.

The Linux Review Group is a group of Linux users willing […]

Phil Hughes

Issue #6, October 1994

Confused over the many flavors of Linux CDs? Here, Phil Hughes gives us a brief summary of what’s out there.

As the Linux movement has grown, so has […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #5, September 1994

For several good reasons, the Linux standard library implements standard I/O (stdio) in a somewhat strange way. Unfortunately, many programs make […]

Bob Amstadt

Issue #5, September 1994

As this issue went to press, the Heidelberg “Linux and Internet Conference” met. Here are candid reactions from two conferees, garnered from e-mail mes […]

Randolph Bentson

Issue #5, September 1994

Every wonder what it’s like to write a driver under Linux? Here’s a summary of one hacker’s experiences.

It started out innocently enough. I […]

Jeff Tranter

Issue #5, September 1994

Linux is based on the Unix operating system, but also features a number of unique and useful kernel features and application programs that often go beyond […]

Hamish Macdonald

Issue #5, September 1994

Most people think that Linux runs only on Intel 80386 and above processors. This article is a status report on Linux/68k, the port of Linux to Motorola […]

Chet Ramey

Issue #4, August 1994

Conclusion of an article started last month. While originally written by Brian Fox of the Free Software Foundation, bash is now maintained by Chet Ramey. In this […]

Matt Welsh

Issue #4, August 1994

This month, Cooking with Linux jogs your memory with a look at the history of Linux. Or, at least, that’s how we remember it…

Linux users these days […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #4, August 1994

In this month’s column, I said that I would give a simple screen-locking example that uses the VT, or Virtual Terminal, ioctl()’s that I documented in that […]

Phil Hughes

Issue #4, August 1994

Over the past few months, Slackware has become the most popular Linux distribution to be made available on the Internet. This new release will differ in one major […]

Frank B. Brokken

K. Kubat

Issue #4, August 1994

In part 1, Brokken and Kubat explained where the ideas for icmake came from, the basics of the program and where you can get a copy. In […]

Jeff Tranter

Issue #4, August 1994

Multimedia has received a lot of attention in the computer industry recently. Unix systems traditionally have not provided much support for multimedia in […]

Ronda Hauben

Issue #4, August 1994

Although the word Linux does not appear in this article, it does offer a lot of interesting background on Unix. That background tells us how we got to the point […]

Bob Tadlock

Issue #4, August 1994

The 1994 DECUS conference offered a large assortment of hardware and software for everyone, from the novice to the professional. DECUS is the Digital Equipment […]

Matt Welsh

Issue #3, June-July 1994

In this editorial, Matt takes a look at what might happen when large companies get involved in the Linux community.

I’m sure that I am not the only […]