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Beyond Your First Shell Script  by Brian Rice

How to write versatile, robust Bourne shell scripts that will run flawlessly under other shells as well.

Diff, Patch, and Friends  by Michael K Johnson

De-mystifying patches and the tools used to create and apply them.

Auto-loading Kernel Modules  by Preston F. Crow

Make your system leaner by modularizing the kernel.

The Cold, Thin Edge  by Todd Graham Lewis

Taking the Shell Paradigm to its Brutal Limits. Whether you use Tcl, shells, Perl, or C, there is usually an option whereby tools from one programming environment can be imported into another. Here's how to “push the envelope”.

Basic fvwm Configuration, Part 2  by John M Fisk

Customizing the Desktop. Organize and customize those pop-up menu entries.

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Mobile-IP  by Ben Lancki, Abhijit Dixit, and Vipul Gupta

Transparent Host Migration on the Internet

Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr  by Andy Vaught

Two graphing packages available under Linux

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by Heiko Eissfeldt

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