Tag Archives: Linux

Jeff Tranter Issue #41, September 1997 Linux and ham radio share a common spirit of cooperation, experimentation and do-it-yourself attitude. These two interests come together in packet radio. In my teens I spent many enjoyable hours tinkering with radio equipment and communicating with other “hams” around the world through the medium of amateur radio. Moving away to attend a university ...

B. Scott Burkett Issue #41, September 1997 One company’s experience using Linux as the operating system of choice for their training classes. The proliferation of the Linux operating system has done much to stimulate the interests and activities of hobbyists around the globe. Many developers and users are taking advantage of this freely available, 32-bit wonder, as a viable home ...

Jon “maddog” Hall Issue #39, July 1997 Jon “maddog” Hall dreams up the ideal configuration for an Intel Linux system in this fantasy letter to Bob Palmer, President and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation. Dear Bob: I have finished configuring your Intel Linux system for you. I think you will be highly pleased with the resulting capabilities. First, I split ...

Thor Sigvaldason Issue #39, July 1997 The XForms home page calls XForms “a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for the X Window System. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, sliders, and menus, etc., integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X applications.” With this first of ...

Marjorie Richardson Lydia Kinata Przemek Klosowski Issue #37, May 1997 Mr. Klosowski tells us about his users group and why it is such a success. Marjorie Richardson, Editor of Linux Journal, and Lydia Kinata, SSC Products Specialist, interviewed Przemek Klosowski, the founder of the highly successful Washington DC Linux Users Group. The interview was conducted via e-mail on January 21, ...

David Rusling Jon Hall Issue #37, May 1997 David Rusling and Jon “maddog” Hall talk about Digital Equipment Corporation and the porting of Linux to the 64-bit Alpha. The Alpha port of Linux actually started on two fronts, one in the Littleton, Massachusetts offices of Digital Equipment Corporation, and one on a riverboat in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first front ...

Richard Sevenich Issue #36, April 1997 Assembly language is a wonderful tool for teaching about how computers work. Professor Sevenich explains how it is used at WSU. In the core program for our computer science curricula we offer two assembly language courses as elements in that part of our sequence providing hardware emphasis. Although the students do learn to program ...

Andrew M. Bishop Issue #36, April 1997 You may rely on your electronic Rolodex to organize your life, but Linux uses the /proc file system. The /proc file system is a part of Linux that most people have not investigated deeply—perhaps may have never heard of. Like the kernel itself, it is a vital part of a Linux system. Yet ...

Evan Leibovitch Issue #35, March 1997 By the time you read this, the SCO in “SCO Xenix” will stand for “Software Considered Obsolete”. Is there an opportunity here? As of January 1, 1996 the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) streamlined its product offerings by dropping a number of older releases from its lineup. Until last December 31, you could still buy ...

Simon G Issue #35, March 1997 Originally designed for controlling consumer electronics, the I2C bus is easily adapted to working with Linux to control a variety of devices using the I2C bus standard. The I2C bus is a two-wire serial bus for connecting a wide range of ICs to a computer or micro-controller. It was originally developed by Phillips in ...