Linux Gazette #57 (September 2000) is available | Linux Today

Linux Gazette #57 (September 2000) is available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 2, 2000

“Linux Gazette…Making Linux just a little more
fun!”

Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes
short articles giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for
customizing and running Linux. It is a member of the Linux
Documentation Project.

Linux Gazette issue #57 can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/lg_toc57.html

For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available
at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html

Table of Contents:

  • From the Editor
  • The MailBag
    • Help Wanted & Article Ideas
    • General Mail
  • News Bytes
    • Distro News
    • News in General
    • Software Announcements
  • The Answer Gang , by The Linux Gazette Answer Gang
  • More 2-Cent Tips
  • Choosing your Window Manager: a Matter of Taste , by Matthias
    Arndt
  • HelpDex , by Shane Collinge
  • Next Linux 2.4 Kernel: some tips by Alan Cox , by Fernando
    Ribeiro Corrêa
  • Apache, the star of the Open Source World , by Fernando Ribeiro
    Corrêa
  • Arturo Esponosa and Red Escolar , by Fernando Ribeiro
    Corrêa
  • Mathias Ettrich: founder of KDE , by Fernando Ribeiro
    Corrêa
  • Variable Mangling in Bash with String Operators , by Pat
    Eyler
  • Using ngrep , by Pat Eyler
  • Easy Addition of an IDE CD-Writer to a Linux/Redhat PC , by
    Daniel Feenberg
  • Creating A Linux Certification Program: Part 10 , by Ray
    Ferrari
  • Tuxedo Tails , by Eric Kasten
  • CVS: Concurrent Versions System , by Mark Nielsen
  • Mark’s Web/Database Installation , by Mark Nielsen
  • Introduction to Shell Scripting , by Ben Okopnik
  • Security Scanners , by Kapil Sharma
  • Making a Simple Linux Network Including Windows 9x , by Juraj
    Sipos
  • More Web Tools , by Martin Skjoldebrand
  • CD-Writing with an ATAPI CDR Mini-HOWTO , by Chris
    Stoddard
  • Hash Tables in Java , by Ben Tindale
  • The Back Page
    • About This Month’s Authors
    • Not Linux
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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