Welcome to our January 2002 issue. With the beginning of this new year, we decided the time was right to make a few changes to Linux Magazine. Some of them you’ll see right away, beginning with this issue, and there are some others that we’ll be introducing as the year moves along.
Welcome to our January 2002 issue. With the beginning of this new year, we decided the time was right to make a few changes to Linux Magazine. Some of them you’ll see right away, beginning with this issue, and there are some others that we’ll be introducing as the year moves along.
If you did a quick scan of the Table of Contents this month, you probably noticed a few differences from what you’re used to finding. Most apparent, we’ve added a bunch of new columns: Power Tools, Extreme Linux, Java Matters, and LAMP Post.
Power Tools is a column devoted to helping you get the most out of the thousands of applications that come with a Unix or Linux system. As you are probably already aware, the original design philosophy behind Unix was to have many small programs that each perform one function exceedingly well, but that can easily be strung together, allowing you to create much more powerful programs. Power Tools will expound upon that philosophy every month and will unlock secrets about Linux’s most popular applications, in order to help you get more mileage out of them.
Extreme Linux is actually a blast from the past. The very first issue of Linux Magazine, back in March 1999, had an Extreme Linux column that mysteriously disappeared from the next issue…and every subsequent issue until this one. Well, we’ve got some good news — due to popular demand, we’re bringing it back. Every month Extreme Linux…
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