January 2002 • Volume 11 • Number 1
Features
WINE: The Open Source Way to Run Windows Applications
Marcel
Gagné
WINE, which stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator”, allows you to run
Microsoft Windows programs on your system, but does not require a copy of Microsoft
Windows, thereby saving the cost of a license. Gagné explains how.
Systems Administration with Scsh
Evan Sarmiento
Sarmiento introduces a package called scsh (the Scheme shell), which provides
a set of macros for the Scheme programming language adding the ability to call
on all standard UNIX system calls and add regular expressions.
Instant Messaging with Jabber
Chris Josephes
Josephes describes how to implement Jabber, an open source instant messaging
environment that is available for UNIX.
Halted Firewalls
Mike Murray
Murray shows how to configure a Linux box so the firewall will continue to filter packets after the machine has been shut down. Network Diagramming and Monitoring with Scotty
Brent Bice
Bice describes Scotty, which can be used as a network-diagramming tool in addition to an SNMP network console. A network diagram built with Scotty can then be used to monitor and troubleshoot the objects within the diagram.
RDB — A UNIX Command-Line Database
Mark
Pruett
Pruett introduces RDB, a simple yet powerful relational database system that operates on plain text files using the UNIX command line.
Questions and Answers
Amy Rich
Redundant Internet Connections Using Linux
Seann Herdejurgen
Herdejurgen shows how to set up a Linux host with redundant Internet connections. Posting Email to the Web with MHonArc
Roberto João Lopes Garcia
Garcia describes MHonArc, a Perl program used to disseminate project-related email to a team of developers.
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