Linux Journal December 1999

The December 1999 issue of Linux Journal (#68) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on November 12, 1999. Linux Journal Contents -- #68 -- December 1999

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Focus

• System Administration by Marjorie Richardson

Features

• Workings of a Virtual Private Network, Part 1 by David Morgan Everything you want to know about VPNs: what they are andhow they work.
• Corporate Linux: Coexisting with the Big Boys by Markolf Gudjons Moving Linux up to major leagues in large scale productionnetworks.
• Post-Installation Security Procedures by Eddie Harari Tired of worry about crackers? Here's what to do.
• Securing Name Servers on UNIX by Nalneesh Gaur How to protect this important part of your Internetconnection.
• 1999 Editor's Choice Awards by Jason Kroll, Marjorie Richardson, Doc Searls and Peter Salus Who won? Find out here.

Forum

• X-ISP by Ibrahim Haddad
• Web-Based Fax Tools by Marcel Gagne
• Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc. by Craig Knudsen
• Guido van Rossum by Phil Hughes
• Free Clues from Eric by Doc Searls

Reviews

• Product Reviews
  • Diffpack by Jim Moore
  • Castlewood Orb by Patrick Lambert
  • MailStudio 2000 by Jason Kroll
• Book Reviews
  • Developing Linux Applications with GTK
  • and GDK by Michael Hammel

Columns

• Take Command: lpd: Getting the Hard Copy by Michael Hughes
• Kernel Korner: Implementing Linux System Calls by Jorge Manjarrez-Sanchez
• At the Forge: A Web-Based Clipping Service by Reuven M. Lerner
• The Cutting Edge: Effectively Utilizing 3DNow! in Linux by Jonathan Bush and Timothy S. Newman
• Focus on Software by David A. Bandel

Departments

• Letters
• upFRONT
• Penguin's Progress: Millennial Musings--Y2K by Peter Salus
• Linux for Suits: A Tale of Two Markets by Doc Searls
• Best of Technical Support
• New Products
  • DupliDisk RAIDcase, ARCO Computer Products, Inc.
  • REALTIME Product Suite, Advanced Management Solutioins
  • Aplio/PRO, Aplio, Inc.
  • Clustor 2.0, Active Tools Inc.
  • OpenLinux 2.3, Caldera Systems, Inc.
  • V2.0 GNUPro Dev Kit for Linux, Cygnus Solutions
  • FortranPlus Explorer, N.A. Software Ltd.
  • ICEbox DS 2000, TA 2000 and NAS 1000, LAND-5 Corporation
  • LightningFAX v6.5.1, Interstar Technologies Inc.
  • OmniServer version 1.0 Omnicentrix Corporation
  • PCI-basce S514 Card, Sangoma Technologies Inc.
  • PostShop, ScanShop, OCR Shop 4.5
  • Xess, Business Logic Corporation
  • Instant Extranet Server [IXS], V-ONE Corporation

• Advertisers Index

Strictly On-Line

• Army National Guard Using Linux by Richard Ridgeway
• Transparent Firewalling by Federico and Christian Pellegrin
• Customizing the XDM Login Screen by Brian Lane
• Kerberos by Cosimo Leipold
• What Can You Expect? by Denny Fox
• The Use of Linux in an Embedded System by Dave Pfaltzgraff
• Building a Firewall with IP Chains by Pedro Bueno
• Porting Progress Applications to Linux by Thomas Barringer

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