The April issue of Linux Journal (#36) will be printed 19 February 1997 and will be mailed from the printers on 24 February 1997. Subscription orders received by 3:00 pm PDT Monday, 10 February 1997 will start with issue #36. Call during normal West Coast business hours at 206-782-7733. TABLE OF CONTENTS LINUX JOURNAL #36 APRIL 1997 FEATURES Serial Terminal as Console Sans video card, sans keyboard, sans monitor: the amazing headless Linux box. by Francesco Conti Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Your Linux Workstation These days, it's possible to put together a decent personal Unix Platform for less than $2,000 US. by Eric S. Raymond Multi-Threading: Intermediate Concepts This second part of a series on Multi-threading deals with how to use C programs with one of the POSIX packages available for Linux to handle signals and concurrent threads in global data. by Martin McCarthy NEWS & ARTICLES Creating Animations with POV-Ray by Andy Vaught The /proc File System and ProcMeter by Andrew M. Bishop Somebody Still Uses Assembly Language? by Richard Sevenich WWWsmith At the Forge: CGI Programming This month's column focuses on a simple, but effective system for creating quizzes for your users. by Reuven M. Lerner Using Perl to Check Web Links A quick way to ensure that your links remain fresh, up-to-date, and connected to valid web pages. by Jim Weirich COLUMNS Letters to the Editor From the Publisher: Linux---The Internet Appliance? Stop the Presses: Usenix/Uselinux in Anaheim Linux Gazette: Indexing Texts with SMART Linux Gazette: History of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format Linux Means Business: Using Linux at Lectra-Systemes Product Review: Applixware 4.2 for Linux Take Command: od---The Oddest Text Utility Around Novice to Novice: A 10-Minute Guide for Using PPP to Connect Linux to the Internet The Best of Tech Support New Products DIRECTORIES Consultants Directory Advertisers Index Marketplace Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all Computer Literacy stores in Silicon Valley) 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 US$32/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada US$54/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 85867 Seattle, WA 98145-1867 Fax: +1 206-782-7191 Tel: +1 206-782-7733 E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering info@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *current* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4 and #17, we're out) for $5 each, or $7 each non-North American airmail.