The June 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#74) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on May 17, 2000. Linux Journal Contents -- #74 -- June 2000 _________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Focus * People Behind Linux by Marjorie Richardson Features * We Talk to Everybody by Marjorie Richardson, Jason Schumaker and David Penn people who helped make Linux possible. * My Life and Free Software by Jon "maddog" Hall In this article, I hope to show that the concepts of freesoftware and the gift of intellectual property to completestrangers are not necessarily new ideas. Forum * Monitor diald from Anywhere on Your LAN by Ed Beroset * wxPython, a GUI Toolkit by Hugues Talbot * Economical Fault-Tolerant Networks by Ali Raza Butt with Jahangir Hasan, Kamran Khalid and Farhan- * PoPToP, a Secure and Free VPN Solution by Matthew Ramsay * Linux for the End User-Phase 1 by Clay Shirky * The Artist's Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 3 by Michael Hammel Reviews * Product Reviews + Builder Xcessory by Robert Hartley + Visual SlickEdit 5.0 by Larry Ayers + Photodex's CompuPic by Michael J. Hammel * Book Reviews + Running Linux, 3rd Editionby Ibrahim F. Haddad + Programming the Perl DBIby Bill Cunningham + Comparative Book Reviewby James Paul Holloway + LINUX & UNIX Shell Programmingby Marjorie Richardson Columns * Linux Apprentice: Linux Tools for the Web by Ralph Krause * Take Command: XVScan by Marjorie Richardson * Linux Means Business: Mission-Critical Application on Linux by Rolf Krogstad * System Administration: Secure Logging Over a Network by Federico and Christian Pellegrin * Kernel Korner: Contributing to the Linux Kernel - Diff and Patch by Joseph Pranevich * Cooking with Linux: I'll Have My People Call Your People by Marcel Gagne * At the Forge: Building Sites with Mason by Reuven M. Lerner * The Last Word: Location Times Three by Stan Kelly-Bootle * The Cutting Edge: The Penguin and the Dinosaur by Adam J. Thornton * Games We Play Game Developers Conference 2000 by Jason Kroll * Linley on Linux: Intel's Itanium on Launch Pad by Linley Gwennap * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News by Rick Lehrbaum Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Penguin's Progress: Just Folks by Peter H. Salus * Linux for Suits: Linux for Suits by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products + FileZerver, Microtest, Inc. + AT75C310, Aplio Inc. + Eyelet GUI, MoJo Designs Inc. + J2SE 1.2.2 for Linux, Sun Microsystems, Inc. + GNUPro Tools for IA-64, Red Hat Software + Linux edition of "A Mother's Shoah", IL NewMedia Publishing + One Station, Maxspeed Corporation + Parallel Computing Toolkit, Wolfram Research + Rave Systems RackMount-1UAXe, Rave Computer Association, Inc. + SafeWrite, TurnSafe Technologies, Inc. + Progress SonicMQ Adds Support for Linux, Progress Software Corporation + System Blocks, SM&A Corp. + T.Rex, Freemont Avenue Software, Inc. + Videomodem, COM One Services + SNA Gateway, Gcom, Inc. + Best Linux 2000, SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * Data and Telecommunications: Systems and Applications by Derek Vadala * Installing Window Maker by Michael J. Hammel Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all fatbrain.com 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 55549 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 USA Fax: +1 206-297-7515 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. While supplies last, back issues are available for $6 ($8 airmail) for one back issue, $5 ($7 airmail) for additional issues on the same order. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars***