October 1998

Consultants Page LF does not charge any fees for access to the articles in its totality. Therefore we do not have funds to pay authors and translators for their work. Nevertheless we feel we owe many people something for their great efforts putting this magazine in motion. Beginning September 1998 LF wants to create a "Consultants Page", every author and collaborator of the magazine will have a short paragraph of space to advertise their skills, email & web pages. We expect this new service will not only be a good way to compensate our collaborators but also a good asset of information for the linux community.

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Contents

Hardware & Software Review

• Linux as an Educational Tool in Undergraduate Labs by Emre Demiralp
  The author describes a first hand account of how linux is changing the face of research labs in educational institutions in Turkey. His experiences exemplify the current changes universities all over the world are implementing.