It's is summer in the northern part of the world and Tux the Linux Penguin is having a lot of fun in the water together with our LinuxFocus dolphin.

This is the first issue of LinuxFocus after a longer break. LinuxFocus has started as a small initiative with a few articles typed more or less freely in HTML. Over the past two years the number of articles has grown constantly and more and more effort was needed to manage the site.
We have now defined a new article format (see LinuxFocus Article Template) and hopefully this will make it easier for authors to write articles. For us it will be easier to administrate the articles and manage the web-site. We have also written a lot of other software to generate some pages automatically and check for dead links. For you, the reader of the journal, nothing much has changed now but you will hopefully see that in the long run the quality of the magazine improves due to these changes.

LinuxFocus has gone through good and bad times. It is a lot of work to maintain a multi lingual magazine and it is not everyones favorite job to translate all articles but it is encouraging that there are still enough idealistic people who believe in the idea of free software and free documentation for a global Linux community.

Enjoy this issue!

System Administration

• How to free Windows partion for usage under Linux, by Olivier Chapuis
  In this article, I explain how to remove windows from a machine which contains both Linux and windows, and moreover, how to use the available space for Linux.
• Japanese on Linux Part I, by Lee Wee Tiong
  This article takes a brief overview at how to make your Linux system Japanese-capable.

Graphics

• Renderman III, by Carlos Calzada Grau
  In this issue about Renderman we discuss the possibility of modeling and animating a scene using C or C++.

UNIX Basics

• Funny csh/sh commands, submitted by Philipp Gühring
  Some interesting answers from your Unix shell :-)

Forum

• Interview with Dennis Ritchie, by Manuel Benet
  Dennis Ritchie is the one who developed C and Unix.

Hardware

• The F-CPU Project: Attempting the "even harder", by Manuel Benet Navarro
  The F-CPU project attempts to develop a microprocessor following a development scheme close to the one guiding important free software projects.

Software Development

• PostScript III: The Operand Stack of PostScript: Arrays, Variables, Loops and Macro Definitions, by Emre Demiralp
  This is the continuation of two previous articles about postscript.
• PostScript II: The Operand Stack of PostScript, by Emre Demiralp
  The author describes the operand stack of the PostScript language. The stack manipulations and mathematical operators are presented here.