The September 1998 issue of Linux Journal (#53) will be mailed from the printers in Post Falls, Idaho on August 7, 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS LINUX JOURNAL September 1998 _________________________________________________________________ Features * Developing Imaging Applications with XIE by Syd Logan The X Image Extension and how to use it. * Open Inventor by Robert Hartley How to do interactive 3-D programming. * LibGGI: Yet Another Graphics API by Andreas Beck The next generation fully portable graphics library. * Porting SGI Audio Applications to Linux by David Phillips and Richard Kent A variety of audio applications are now available for usewith Linux. * Visualizing with VTK by James C. Moore A look at VTK, an object-oriented visual toolkit. News & Articles * Porting MS-DOS Graphics Applications by Jawed Karim * A Tale of DXPC: Differential X Protocol Compression by Justin Gaither * Chess Software for Linux by Jason Kroll * LJ Interviews Greg Hankins by Marjorie Richardson * Migrating to Linux: Part 2 by Norman M. Jacobowitz and Jim Hebert Reviews * Product Review + SockMail by Noah Yasskin * Book Review + Unix Power Tools by Samuel Ockman + Managing AFS: Andrew File System by Daniel Lazenby + Discover Linux by Marjorie Richardson WWWsmith * Updating Pages Automatically by Reuven M. Lerner Columns * Letters to the Editor * Best of Technical Support * From the Editor: How Many Distributions? by Marjorie Richardson * Stop the Presses: USENIX 1998 by Aaron Mauck * Take Command: A Little Devil Called tr by Hans De Vreught * Linux Means Business: Training on a Token Ring Network by Charles Kitsuki * Kernel Korner: Driving One's Own Audio Device by Alessandro Rubini * Linux Gazette: MUP: Music Publisher by Bob van der Poel * New Products + Conix 3D Explorer, Conix Enterprises + NetWinder, Corel Computer + CommuniGate Pro Server 2.0 Beta, Stalker Software + J Street Mailer Release Two, InnoVal Systems Solutions + InterBase 4.0, InterBase Software Corp. + Metro-X 4.3, Metro Link Directories & References * Advertisers Index _________________________________________________________________ Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all Computer Literacy stores) and is delivered to newsstands by a newsstand distributor. If you know a place that sells magazines that you feel should stock LJ, send e-mail to dist@ssc.com or have them call SSC at 206-782-7733. Getting LJ on newsstands is one of the best ways we can show the non-Internet crowd that Linux is for real. Subscriptions are: US$22/year U.S. US$27/year Canada & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$64/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 500 Missouri City, TX 77459-9903 USA Fax: +1 281-261-5999 Tel: +1 888-66-LINUX E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering linux@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *next upcoming* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4, #5, #30 and #44, we're out) for $6 each or $8 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars*** Other questions/comments can be sent to: linux@ssc.com