The August 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#76) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on July 25, 2000. Linux Journal Contents -- #76 -- August 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 * From the Editor by Editorial Staff Features * LinuxPPC on the Macintosh PowerBook by Richard Kinne Linux goes Mac portable... * Yellow Dog Linux on the iMac by Stew Benedict A guide to installing and running YDL on a power PC. * Linux Finance Programs Review by Ralph Krause This article covers the following programs: cbb, QHacc,GnuCash, Moneydance, and gAcc. I've also attached 6 screencaptures. Forum * Writing a Java Class to Manage RPM Package Content by Jean-Yves Mengant * The Artists' Guide to the Desktop--Part IV by Michael J. Hammel * Comparing Java Implementations for Linux by Michael Hirsch * Configuring Bash by David Blackman * VARs: Increasing Margins Through Free Software by Dean Taylor Reviews * Product Reviews + EasyLinux v1.2 by Pedro Bueno + PCI Symphony Network Cards by Denny Fox + Imagestream IS Gateway and Rebel Routers by Jon Valesh + FreeNetshop by Kevin Lyons + Linux and The Linksys EtherFast Instant GigaDrive by Billy Ball + WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe by Jon Valesh + Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 by Jon Valesh * Book Reviews + Open Source Linux: Web Programmingby Daniel Lazenby + Building Database Applications on the Web Using PHP3by Gaelyne R. Gasson Columns * Linux Apprentice: A Heterogeneous Linux/Windows 95 Home Network by Chirakkal Easwaran * Take Command: klogd: The Kernel Logging Daemon by Michael A. Schwarz * Kernel Korner: kHTTPd, a Kernel-Based Web Server by Moshe Bar * Cooking with Linux: Organizing your $HOME by Marcel Gagne * At the Forge: Session management with Mason by Reuven M. Lerner * The Last Word: Hold the Back Page by Stan Kelly-Bootle * Linley on Linux: Linux on Wheels: A New Opportunity by Linley Gwennap * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News by Rick Lehrbaum Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Penguin's Progress: Do manufacturers have any responsibility? by Peter H. Salus * Linux for Suits: The Shrinking Subject by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products + Linux Office Solutions, VistaSource Inc + CodeWizard 3.1, ParaSoft + eEMU, Jarrix Systems Pty Ltd + RIA Server, Crystal Group Inc. + Exile III: Ruined World, Spiderweb Software + User Management in MandrakeSoft 7.1, MandrakeSoft, Inc. + HostML and ViewML, Century Software + Flipper Graph Control 2.0, ProWorks LLC + RTAI v1.3, RTAI + Server.group, Technauts Inc. + VCOM on Linux, NetSys Software Group + RM1U-AXe and RM2U-AXi-C, Rave Computer Association, Inc. + TowerJ 3.5, Tower Technology Corporation + X-Win32 v5.0, StarNet Communications Corporation * Advertisers Index 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***