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Creating fire effects with The GIMP
In this article we show a procedure to create fire effects with The GIMP in five steps
Introduction to DNS
You may have wondered what happens behind the scenes in Netscape after you enter a URL. This article will help you to understand the name-lookup process.
Multicast
This article is an introduction to multicast technologies on TCP/IP networks.
Managing Your Mail with procmail
Keep you mail on folders, respond automatically, create mailing lists, learn how to do these and much more with procmail.
PGP Under Linux
The author gives an introduction to PGP.
Design of Recursive Structures. POVRAY III
The author explores the use of iterative structures within POVRAY and the beautiful images that they can generate.
POVRAY II: Basic Notions
This is the second article on a series about Povray. This time we review some general concepts and start describing the basic elements of the language.
POVRAY I: First Steps
This article begins a series about the Povray raytracer.
Using Apache ProxyPass to access servers behind a Masquerading
This article demonstrates how to make a webserver behind a firewall available on the internet without changing rules on your firewall or compromising security.
Recycling Ip Addresses with Apache
This article demonstrates how to serve multiple virtual web servers using the same Ip address with Apache on Unix/Linux.
The Tcl Syntax
This article explains basics concept and syntax of the Tcl language
Getting Linux to Run a Computer with an Alpha CPU
The author share with us his experiences putting together an Alpha PC
RenderMan Part III
This article discusses he possibility of modeling and animating a scene using C or C!+
RenderMan: Basics on Camera Positioning
Although the positioning is not as intuitive as Pov-Ray, it has an advantage when describing camera trajectories.
RenderMan
Who has not heard of Pixar? Who has not seen "Toy Story"? Pixar developed RenderMan.
Magicpoint
This article reviews the possibility of MagicPoint. This software is one of the very few that allow creation of presentations under X-Windows.
Interview with David Bagley
David Bagley is the current maintainer of xlock, a popular X Window screen saver and locking utility.
Linux among artists at BUF COMPAGNIE
BUF Company is a major synthetic image maker in the film business.
Linux on a Sony Vaio 505gx
How to install Linux on a Sony Vaio 505gx
Learning with nmap
nmap is a security scanner
Network Management and Monitoring with Linux
Some handy tools for managing today's ubiquitous networks
Booting three different operating systems: RedHat Linux 5.2, SCO Openserver 5.0.5 and Windows NT 4.0
Edgar explains how to setup one PC boot to boot 3 operating systems.
Kernel Secrets
A short description of the Linux Kernel.
PostScript III, Arrays, Variables, Loops and Macro Definitions
This is the continuation of two previous articles about postscript.
PostScript Part II: The Operand Stack
The author describes the operand stack of the PostScript language. The stack manipulations and mathematical operators are presented here.
Linux as an Educational Tool in Undergraduate Labs
The author describes a first hand account of how Linux is changing the face of research labs in educational institutions in Turkey.
The Postscript Language
This is the first one of a series of articles about PostScript.
Introduction to BORG
BORG is graphical user interface to BMRT, but it is not just a GUI it divides the rendering work across different computers where BMRT is used to render frames.
The uCsimm kit
This article describes the uCsimm kit and the UClinux project: Porting the linux kernel on hardware without MMU (memory management unit).
Security holes - part IV
This fourth article deals with format strings security holes
Security Holes - part II
This second article is not directly related with the subject of the series. It reviews some concepts before describing the fear of all the system administrators:Buffer Overflows. We shall see how the memory is organized as well as the stack and how a function call is performed. Then we present a tool used for every intrusion attempt: shellcode.
Security Holes - part I
This is the first article of a series of articles on security holes that can appear within a program. The series will show how to avoid security holes if programming habits are slightly corrected. We shall first discuss privileges, UID and EUID in this first article before dealing with the execution of external commands.
Bastille Linux
Available by the beginning of june,version 1.1 of Bastille-Linux is not a new Linux Distribution but a set of security scripts. The authors have adopted a very pedagogic approach and one can learn a lot simply installing these scripts.
Yellow Pages (Part II)
My previous article was an introduction to the yellow pages and RPCs. This one explains how to configure a NIS client, how this client works and a small introduction to the different tools coming with NIS. Finally, we'll have a few words about NIS+
Yellow Pages
The Network Information Service (NIS) manages a data base on server. Each computer on a network running a NIS client NIS can then poll the server for informations (login name,password, users and groups informations, ...).
Automount and autofs
Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is a highly customizable window manager for Linux. This article discusses the features, installation, and customization of the Enlightenment window manager.
Singing in the web... with Opera 5.0 for Linux
Review of the new improved version of one of the lightest browsers
Security tools
Free tools to harden your systems
REBOL the rebel
Let's say REBOL is a messaging language, but as a matter of fact, it's much more than that.
NEdit, the universal editor in Unix world
Nedit is a remarkable editor. Unfortunately it is not included in most Linux distributions and therefore not as well known as other editors.
WindowMaker the spirit of NextStep
Window Maker 0.61.1 is the latest release of a NeXT look-alike window manager.
FSViewer, a File Manager for WindowMaker
Among the revolutionary tools of NeXTStep, the first in order of appearance on the screen was indisputably the File Viewer. Thanks to the path-view in that File Manager you always knew where you were. It was more than a manager, it was a true browser. FSViewer is a NeXTStep a like File Manager for WindowMaker.
Bookreview: Professional Perl Programming
This is a review of the book Professional Perl Programming from Wrox Press.
A serial line shutdown button with control LED
In this article we design a little push button to connect to your server on the serial line and which you can use to shut the machine down when needed.
Using Serial Line LCD displays under Linux
This article show how to use the BLC2021 PC-Bay Insert serial line display from Matrix Orbital under Linux.
Product review: SNiFF+ for Linux
SNiFF+ is an integrated development environment for Linux. TakeFive Software provides a download version (limited to 200 files) free of charge.
Perl part III
This article explains how to use arrays in Perl.
Home Networking, glossary and overview
This article explains hardware and networking terminology
Perl II
In the second part of the Perl tutorial we write our first real program.
Perl I
This is the start of a Perl tutorial
File Access Permissions
This article is divided into two parts: The first part (Basic file access permissions) is a very short introduction to the basic file permission concept under Unix. The second part (T-bit, SUID and SGID) covers more advanced features of Linux that go beyond the basic "read-write-execute" flags.
Finding Files
How to search for files by name or content.
Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are advanced search patters. This Article gives an introduction.
Game Review - Tux Racer
Tux Racer is a fast pace arcade game. Our favorite Linux mascot has to slide down snow-covered hills,trying to catch as many herrings as possible and finish the courses in time.
Tux's secret obsession - Gaming under Linux
This is a short overview over the gaming scene under Linux.
Game Review - FreeCiv
FreeCiv is an open source clone of Sid Meier's popular Civilisation
Nerdbank - a banking initiative for open interfaces
Nerdbank is a project to develop an open and secure banking system for worldwide electronic money transactions.
Interview with Juan Jose Amor
Juan Jose Amor Iglesias Current coordinator of the LuCAS project, part of the LDP and devoted to the translation and localization of MDL manuals in Spanish
Real-Time Linux II
In this second issue devoted to RT-Linux I will try to offer a more practical view of RT-Linux.
The StarOffice Suite
This article looks at the word processor in StarOffice
Real-Time Linux
Basic Concepts of Real-Time.
StarOffice for Linux
This article reviews the applications available in the suite StarOffice 4.0. The author gives us a demonstration using tool for the creation of presentations. (functionally similar to Microsoft's Power Point).
Lyx Review
Lyx is an editor with fantastic possibilities. Ismael gives us a little overview.
Linux RT, part III
In this article a simple electric circuit is used to process commands from any infra-red remote control.
TCPD and Firewalls using IPFWADM
This article describes very briefly how to configure the inetd services in order to improve security on your system. We concentrate in the of the tool IPFWADM to administer and configure inetd services
Awk
Examples on how to use AWK
Easy Graphics: A Beginner's Guide to SVGAlib
SVGAlib is a simple graphics library that works without X11
Slackware 7.0 part II: Configuration Guide
After the installation in the first part, the author now describes some basic configuration tasks in his now favorite Linux distribution. He explains how to configure X, how to compile a kernel (and how to use it with lilo), how to do user account management, how to dial in to internet and how to give your system some basic security.
Slackware 7.0 part I: Installation Guide
The author describes in detail the installation of the Slackware 7.0 Linux distribution. This article is written for beginners.
The X Display Manager
The X Display Manager runs as a daemon on a host machine and manages multiple X displays.
Configuring X
What are all those dotfiles for anyway?
Building, Installing and Configuring sendmail 8.8.x
This is a copy of a Mini HOWTO on sendmail
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX
The goal of this article is provide managers in corporations with the data and comparisons necessary to make well-informed decisions concerning the installation of servers for the corporate environment. All the information presented in this article summarizes the experience of a number of information systems professionals.
Book review: Professional PHP Programming
This article,reviews the book Professional PHP Programming,a Programmer to programmer collection from WROX press.
Building text files with m4 macros
This article shows how to use m4 macros
Java. Part II
The second part of a tutorial about java
MySQL. A Database Server
MySQL is an SQL (Structured Query Language) database server supported by a number of platforms, including Linux. Its Linux version is design with fast performance in mind.
Programming with Java. Part I
This is the first article in a series about Java programming. The first part will describe Java as a language, its general characteristics and the location of the most relevant sources of information.
Through the Window
Some notes about window managers.
Debugging Code with ddd
ddd is a wonderful graphical debugger.
I got Linux Installed, What next?
This article introduces new users to some of the issues that he/she will confront upon installation of Linux.
Writing Text with PhotoShop
The graphics corner continues to review and compare two good Image manipulation tools: Photoshop and Gimp. Our reviewers explore the creation of text banners.
Graphical Photo composition with Photoshop
A comparison between Photoshop and Gimp
Do magic with images on the shell
This article explains how to automate image processing with the shell and ImageMagick
An Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot
An advanced article that explains how to bootstrap your computer from a program stored in non-volatile memory without accessing your hard disk.
Japanese on Linux Part I
This article takes a brief overview at how to make your Linux system Japanese-capable.
PG2CGI Access to Databases from the Web
We describe a new program that allows one accessing a database from HTML pages.
Making Shared Libraries
How to compile and generate shared libraries.
f-CPU Project: Attempting the "even harder"
The fPU project attempts to develop a microprocessor like the present ones allowing a development scheme close to the one guiding important free software projects.
Interview with Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie is the one who developed C and Unix.
Interview with Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds talks about the past and future of Linux and shares his opinions on current events
Basic UNIX commands
Simple introduction to some of the basic UNIX tools
SQL Tutorial Part II
Part II of the tutorial reviews several basic statements of the SQL language.
Introduction to SQL. (SQL Part I) and installation of PostgreSQL
A SQL tutorial intended for novice database developers.
Linux in Hospitals
Linux means business, an example of using Linux in the health care environment.
Some Tips
Well...here are some notes, tricks, some of these are specific to non-english speaking users and therefore not frequently answered in the common documentation.
Connecting to the Internet
Here we have something lots of users face up to in their early stages of setting Linux up: Connecting to the Internet.
Wacky uses for Raid, /dev/ram, and ramfs
ramfs is a new file system in the 2.4 Kernel. It is very simple but could have some interesting applications.
Speeding up small databases on Linux
A Ramdisk can be used to make small PostgreSQL databases really fast.
How to use a Ramdisk for Linux
This article shows how to use RAM as a virtual harddisk.
MindsEye: 3D Modeling
About 2 years ago, when linux was still very much a hackers operating system, the idea popped up to start work on a renderer/modeler/animation program for Linux.
Adding Security to Common Linux Distributions
How to modify a Linux distribution out of the box to get better security.
BOOK REVIEW: HTML & XHTML, O'Reilly
Review of the book HTML & XHTML published by O'Reilly
Happy Hacking Keyboard
Product review of the Happy Hacking Keyboard
GLUT: using Menus
Our GL Utility Toolkit series continues, examining the windows menu programming interface with a simple example.
OpenGL: the 3D Scene
Explore the bolts and nuts of 3D rendering with OpenGL.
GLUT Programming: Windows Management
This article explains the usage of the GLUT windows management sub-API
OpenGL Programming: More about Lines
The Author describes more of the line rendering capabilities of OpenGL
OpenGL Programming:Simple Polygon Rendering
The author describes the first steps into any OpenGL application and tells us how to render simple polygons in 2D.
GLUT programming:Windows and Animations
GLUT is the GL Utility Toolkit, developed by Mark Kilgard. In this article the author introduces GLUT, and gives us a primer on Windows and Animations handling with GLUT.
What is OpenGL?
This article is the first in a series about OpenGL, perhaps the most successful API for high-end 3D graphics
Mail From Our Readers
E-mail feedback after the first issue of Linuxfocus went out
ECC2-79 cracked: Alpha Linux did it
A short note about a group of Alpha Linux enthusiasts who cracked ECC2-79
Setting Up a ZIP drive on an Alpha platform
Tips for users of a DEC-Alpha
Enabling Profile on the Alpha
Tips for users of a DEC-Alpha
Installation of Manpages-es
How to get man-pages of the most important Linux system commands in Spanish.
What is Linux?
A brief history of Linux
Creating a (Somewhat Useful) Version of Linux
Follow this article and learn how to create your own set of boot/root disks under Linux.
How to remove windows
This article describes how to remove Windows and give the disk space to Linux without re-installing it
Interview with Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza gives us an interesting peek at a selected group of linux kernel developers. He is involved with the Linux/Sparc, Gnome project and RedHat's Lab.
Enabling Chinese on Linux
This brief article describes how to enable Chinese locale on a "standard" Linux box.
Creating and Editing Animations with GIMP
Simple techniques to create and edit animations using the Gimp
Writing Text with Gimp
The graphics corner continues to review and compare two good Image manipulation tools: Photoshop and Gimp. Our reviewers explore the creation of text banners.
Graphical Photo composition with The Gimp
A comparison between Photoshop and Gimp
Hardware Review: OpenGL & GLUT with Voodoo 3Dfx in Mind
How to program OpenGL on a Voodoo 3Dfx graphic card.
3Dfx graphics card
3Dfx Interactive's 3D chipset is changing the world of high-end graphics.
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
Bill Gates on customer support
Dialog - a programming language for dialogs
Dialog is a programming language to program dialogs in games and computer simulations
Funny shell commands
Some interesting answers form your Unix c-shell
VXE, a Linux security tool
Serge Lozovsky presents a software package that he developed to make UNIX systems more secure.
GNU/Linux on Fujitsu 635T
How to install Linux on a Fujitsu 635T laptop
Compiling, Configuring and Installing a fully-working Customized Linux Kernel
This article provides you with an extremely detailed and step-by-step process describing how to Compile, Configure and then Install a Customized Red Hat Linux Kernel.
Approaching Vector Linux
Review of a mini linux distribution
How to partition your hard drive for Linux
Thomas explains how he has chosen to partition his hard disk.
Installation and Configuration of a Raid-system
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) consists of a series of systems to organize several disk drives into a single entity that behaves as a single virtual drive but making the various disks work in parallel thus improving the access performance and saving the information stored from accidental crashes.
An auto guided Vehicle Based on Linux
This ariticle describes a Linux based robot as developed at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
How to use your CD-ROM under Linux
This article gives a short but useful description on how to use your CD-ROM under Linux.
Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux
The advantages of a vectorial representation over bitmap is that files are smaller and the image can be enlarged significantly without differences in rendering (pixellisation). Sketch is written in Python, an object oriented interpreted programming language.
Tools selection with Gimp and color correction
This article explains how to use Gimp's powerful selection mechanisms.
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