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Chet Ramey

Issue #3, June-July 1994

While originally written by Brian Fox of the Free Software Foundation, bash is now maintained by Chet Ramey. In this article, Chet explains the nhistory of […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #3, June-July 1994

This article will explain how to program the VT interface to do things which can’t easily be done with “escape sequences” on a Linux console, giving a r […]

Ian Murdock

Issue #3, June-July 1994

The Debian project has always been open to anyone wanting to participate in discussion of its development, but it was only recently that the actual task of […]

Frank Brokken

K. Kubat

Issue #3, June-July 1994

Part 2 covered some of the grammar of icmake source files. This part completes the task. The final part of this article will appear next […]

Phil Hughes

Issue #3, June-July 1994

The week of March 21-25 I attended the UniForum show in San Francisco. At that show I played the multiple roles of press person, Linux Journal booth staffer, […]

Matt Welsh

Issue #2, April-May 1994

Despite all evidence to the contrary, people just happen to love rules. They love being told what to do—“leadership” is seen as a virtue. Whatever happened to pe […]

Frank B. Brokken

K. Kubat

Issue #2, April-May 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 […]

Magnus Y Alvestad

Eugene G. Crosser

Issue #2, April-May 1994

In this column, we will include short articles and news items about Linux.

According to the Linux Counter, Norway is […]

Arnold Robbins

Issue #2, April-May 1994

This month’s column is only peripherally related to the GNU Project, in that it describes a number of the GNU tools on you Linux system and how they might […]

Daniel Quinlan

Issue #2, April-May 1994

The recent release of the Linux FSSTND (short for “filesystem standard”) promises to bring Linux developers together into a more cohesive gro […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #2, April-May 1994

In this column, I’ll explore the GNU C Library. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has written an excellent reference manual, available in an electronic […]

Ian A. Murdock

Issue #1, March 1994

The distribution of Linux as a commercial product is unique in the world of computer software in that most commercial Linux enterprises have not developed the […]

Matt Welsh

Issue #1, March 1994

“Cooking With Linux” is a monthly feature, intended primarily to give the Linux bourgeois an inside look at some of the issues, both humorous and profound, per […]

Arnold Robbins

Issue #1, March 1994

Welcome to the inaugural edition of What’s GNU?, a semi-regular column on the GNU project. The “semi” in semi-regular means that we expect this column to app […]

Phil Hughes

Issue #1, March 1994

The df command is used to show the amount of disk space that is free on file systems. In the examples, df is first called with no arguments. This default action […]

Michael K. Johnson

Issue #1, March 1994

In this initial column, I’ll explore porting programs from other Un*x versions to Linux. Porting Un*x applications to Linux is best done, as a general rule, […]

Frank B. Brokken

K. Kubat

Issue #1, March 1994

In this first part of a three part article, Frank and Karel explore their motivation for writing a new programming “make tool”, the org […]

Linus Torvalds

Issue #1, March 1994

This is a general announcement of the imminent code-freeze that will hopefully make Linux 1.0 a reality. The plan has been discussed a bit with various […]

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This is differently and distros use it in slightly different way. It’s a tempFS file system which means it runs in RAM. In other words, everything is gone when system is rebooted or shut down, it’s used […]

In this blog we will discuss about Linux directories for new Linux users coming from Windows. Windows and Linux evolved in very different ways. Linux is different so is its file structure, it also doesn’t install […]