The December 1999 issue of Linux Journal (#68) will be mailed from the
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               Linux Journal Contents -- #68 -- December 1999
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    Focus
    
     * System Administration by Marjorie Richardson
       
    Features
    
     * Workings of a Virtual Private Network, Part 1 by David Morgan
       Everything you want to know about VPNs: what they are andhow they
       work.
     * Corporate Linux: Coexisting with the Big Boys by Markolf Gudjons
       Moving Linux up to major leagues in large scale
       productionnetworks.
     * Post-Installation Security Procedures by Eddie Harari
       Tired of worry about crackers? Here's what to do.
     * Securing Name Servers on UNIX by Nalneesh Gaur
       How to protect this important part of your Internetconnection.
     * 1999 Editor's Choice Awards by Jason Kroll, Marjorie Richardson,
       Doc Searls and Peter Salus
       Who won? Find out here.
       
    Forum
    
     * X-ISP by Ibrahim Haddad
     * Web-Based Fax Tools by Marcel Gagne
     * Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc. by Craig Knudsen
     * Guido van Rossum by Phil Hughes
     * Free Clues from Eric by Doc Searls
       
    Reviews
    
     * Product Reviews
          + Diffpack by Jim Moore
          + Castlewood Orb by Patrick Lambert
          + MailStudio 2000 by Jason Kroll
     * Book Reviews
          + Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK by Michael
            Hammel
       
    Columns
    
     * Take Command: lpd: Getting the Hard Copy by Michael Hughes
     * Kernel Korner: Implementing Linux System Calls by Jorge
       Manjarrez-Sanchez
     * At the Forge: A Web-Based Clipping Service by Reuven M. Lerner
     * The Cutting Edge: Effectively Utilizing 3DNow! in Linux by
       Jonathan Bush and Timothy S. Newman
     * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel
       
    Departments
    
     * Letters
     * upFRONT
     * Penguin's Progress: Millennial Musings--Y2K by Peter Salus
     * Linux for Suits: A Tale of Two Markets by Doc Searls
     * Best of Technical Support
     * New Products
          + DupliDisk RAIDcase, ARCO Computer Products, Inc.
          + REALTIME Product Suite, Advanced Management Solutioins
          + Aplio/PRO, Aplio, Inc.
          + Clustor 2.0, Active Tools Inc.
          + OpenLinux 2.3, Caldera Systems, Inc.
          + V2.0 GNUPro Dev Kit for Linux, Cygnus Solutions
          + FortranPlus Explorer, N.A. Software Ltd.
          + ICEbox DS 2000, TA 2000 and NAS 1000, LAND-5 Corporation
          + LightningFAX v6.5.1, Interstar Technologies Inc.
          + OmniServer version 1.0 Omnicentrix Corporation
          + PCI-basce S514 Card, Sangoma Technologies Inc.
          + PostShop, ScanShop, OCR Shop 4.5
          + Xess, Business Logic Corporation
          + Instant Extranet Server [IXS], V-ONE Corporation
     * Advertisers Index
       
    Strictly On-Line
    
     * Army National Guard Using Linux by Richard Ridgeway
     * Transparent Firewalling by Federico and Christian Pellegrin
     * Customizing the XDM Login Screen by Brian Lane
     * Kerberos by Cosimo Leipold
     * What Can You Expect? by Denny Fox
     * The Use of Linux in an Embedded System by Dave Pfaltzgraff
     * Building a Firewall with IP Chains by Pedro Bueno
     * Porting Progress Applications to Linux by Thomas Barringer
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