The February 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#70) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on January 12, 1999. Linux Journal Contents -- #70 -- February 2000 _________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: To voice your opinions on and join discussion groups about these articles, go to our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Focus * Linux on the Desktop by Marjorie Richardson Features * KDE--The Next Generation by Kalle Dalheimer All about the 2.0 release of KDE--find out what's coming. * GNOME, Its State and Future by George Lebl, Elliot Lee and Miguel de I caza Find out what's happening with the GNOME project--are theygiving u p? I'd say not. * Artists' Guide to the Linux Desktop, Part 1 by Michael J. Hammel < br>Discover all you need to know about window managers in thisfirst of a series . * Office Wars: Applixware and StarOffice by Jason Kroll Get to k now the two office suites available for Linux andhow they compare. Forum * LaTeX for Secretaries by Jacek Artymiak * Matlab--A Tool for Doing Numerics by Tobias Vancura * Remind: The Ultimate Personal Calendar by David F. Skoll * LinuxPPC 1999 by Stephane Morvan * Open Source/Open Science 1999 by Stephen Adler * Profile: TiVo by Craig Knudsen Reviews * Product Reviews + CommuniGate Pro Mail Server by Scott Wegener + Code Fusion Version 1.0 by D aniel Lazenby * Book Reviews + Teach Yourself StarOffice 5 for Linux in 24 H ours by Ben Crowder + The No B.S. Guide to Red Hat Linux 6 by Harvey Friedman + LINUX to go by Marjorie Richa rdson + StarOffice for Dummies by Sid Wentworth Columns * Linux Apprentice: SCSI--Small Computer System Interface by Keith de Solla * Take Command: HFS utilities by Marjorie Rich ardson * Linux Means Business: Using Linux at the Aging Research Centre by Jason Neudorf and Steven A. Ga ran * System Administration: Mark's Mega Multi-Boot Computer by Mark Nielsen * Kernel Korner: Linux 2.4 Spotlight: ISA Plug and Play by Joseph Pranevich * Cooking with Linux: Tasty KDE Desktop Themes by Marcel Gagne * Linux Gazette: Emacs Macros and the Power-Macros Package by Jesper Pedersen * At the Forge: More About Searching by Reuven M. Lerner * The Last Word: The Open Road Ahead by Stan Kelly-Bootle * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Penguin's Progress: Desktops of the Future by Peter Salus * Linux for Suits: Linux for Suits by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products + New Products * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * T/TCP: TCP for Transactions by Mark Stacey, Iv an Griffin and John Nelson * POSIX Thread Libraries by Felix Garcia and Jav ier Fernandez * Linux and Open-Source Applications by Peter Jo nes and M. B. Jorgenson * Laptops for Linux! by Jason Kroll Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all fatbrain.com stores) 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 & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$64/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 55549 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 USA Fax: +1 206-297-7515 Tel: +1 888-66-LINUX E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering linux@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *next upcoming* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4, #5, #30 and #44, #47, #48, #54, #56 and #57, we're out) for $6 each or $8 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars***