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                      TABLE OF CONTENTS 
                          
                      LINUX JOURNAL #36

                          APRIL 1997  
                      

FEATURES

Serial Terminal as Console

	Sans video card, sans keyboard, sans monitor: the amazing
	headless Linux box.

	by Francesco Conti

Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Your Linux Workstation

	These days, it's possible to put together a decent personal
	Unix Platform for less than $2,000 US.

	by Eric S. Raymond

Multi-Threading: Intermediate Concepts

	This second part of a series on Multi-threading deals with
	how to use C programs with one of the POSIX packages available for
	Linux to handle signals and concurrent threads in global data.

	by Martin McCarthy

NEWS & ARTICLES

Creating Animations with POV-Ray
	by Andy Vaught

The /proc File System and ProcMeter
	by Andrew M. Bishop

Somebody Still Uses Assembly Language?
	by Richard Sevenich

WWWsmith

At the Forge: CGI Programming

	This month's column focuses on a simple, but effective system
	for creating quizzes for your users.

	by Reuven M. Lerner

Using Perl to Check Web Links

	A quick way to ensure that your links remain fresh, up-to-date,
	and connected to valid web pages.

	by Jim Weirich

COLUMNS

Letters to the Editor
From the Publisher: Linux---The Internet Appliance?
Stop the Presses: Usenix/Uselinux in Anaheim  
Linux Gazette: Indexing Texts with SMART
Linux Gazette: History of the Portable Network
		Graphics (PNG) Format
Linux Means Business: Using Linux at Lectra-Systemes 
Product Review: Applixware 4.2 for Linux
Take Command: od---The Oddest Text Utility Around
Novice to Novice: A 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect
			Linux to the Internet 
The Best of Tech Support
New Products

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