Linux Journal Issue #103 / November 2002
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    Features

   Bridging the Digital Divide in South Africa  by Linda Martindale
          When you have to localize both Mozilla and OpenOffice, do you have to teach your translators two sets of tools? No--just use
          KDE's KBabel.

   Radio E-Mail in West Africa  by Wayne Marshall
          To the users, it looks like regular e-mail. But behind the scenes, a Linux-based project is using HF radio to move it
          hundreds of kilometers without a wire or even a repeater.

   Introduction to Internationalization Programming  by Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov
          When your software gets new users who prefer a different language, what are you going to do? Learn the fundamentals of POSIX
          locales and GNU gettext now, so that you can make your program multilingual later.

   Indian Language Solutions for GNU/Linux  by Frederick Noronha
          Some of the hardest languages to support are also some of the most widely spoken. Here's an overview of the projects to make
          Linux work with the two languages on our cover and more.

    Indepth

   Playing with ptrace, Part I  by Pradeep Padala
          You might have used strace to see what system calls a program makes. strace strace and you'll see it uses the ptrace call.
          What's that? Here's what.

   QUORUM: Prepaid Internet at the University of Zululand  by Soren Aalto
          When net access is expensive, you can't let web surfing break the budget. Here's a system to enforce fair quotas for all.

   2002 Readers' Choice Awards  by Heather Mead
          If you're our average reader, the GIMP is your favorite grapics program. But some of the other winners are surprising.

   Using the Kernel Security Module Interface  by Greg Kroah-Hartman
          Some of today's hottest security projects are using the 2.5 kernel's LSM technology. Kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman
          explains the new security framework that will give you an extra layer of protection in the future.

    Embedded

   Controlling Creatures with Linux   by Steve Rosenbluth, Michael Babcock and David Barrington Holt
          Is that movie character animatronic or computer-generated? Find out how the same Linux-based system can let one person
          control either one.

    Toolbox

   Kernel Korner  Multicast Routing Code in the Linux Kernel  by Matteo Pelati

   At the Forge  OpenACS Packages  by Reuven M. Lerner

   Cooking with Linux  Serving Up the All-Linux Office  by Marcel Gagné

    Columns

   Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
          Hey USA, Don't Miss the Boat!

   IAAL  by Lawrence Rosen
          Why We Still Oppose the UCITA

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