Linux Journal Contents -- #88 -- August 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Features * Focus: Platforms by Richard Vernon * The Trials and Tribulations of Installing LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 by Paul Barry How easy is it to use Linux on a Mac? * PostgreSQL Performance Tuning by Bruce Momjian Configure to get the most from PostgreSQL. Indepth * freeVSD Enables Safe Experiments by Randall Embry Take the danger out of testing new software (and administrators) with freeVSD. Toolbox * Kernel Korner Kernel Tuning Gives 40% Gains by Rick Gorton * At the Forge XMLC by Reuven M. Lerner * Cooking with Linux Launch, not Lunch Platforms! by Marcel Gagné * Paranoid Penguin swatch: Automated Log Monitoring for the Vigilant but Lazy by Mick Bauer * GFX DreamWorks Features Linux and Animation by Robin Rowe Columns * Linley on Linux: New Chips Make Security Almost Free by Linley Gwennap * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Focus on Embedded Systems by Rick Lehrbaum * Geek Law: Copyright Questions Lawrence Rosen Reviews * Product Reviews + Kylix by Petr Sorfa + Mandrake 8.0 by Choong Ng * Book Reviews + PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Stephanie Black Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Best of Technical Support * New Products * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * Your Network's Secret Life, Part 1 by Marcel Gagné * Linux on the Desktop--an Impossible Dream? by Bryan Pfaffenberger * Volution Review by Joshua Drake