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Preface
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Acknowledgments
This book, of course, was not written in a vacuum; we would like to thank the many
people who have helped to make it possible.
Thanks to our editor, Andy Oram; this book is a vastly better product as a result of
his efforts. And obviously we owe a lot to the smart people who have laid the philo-
sophical and practical foundations of the current free software renaissance.
The first edition was technically reviewed by Alan Cox, Greg Hankins, Hans Ler-
men, Heiko Eissfeldt, and Miguel de Icaza (in alphabetic order by first name). The
technical reviewers for the second edition were Allan B. Cruse, Christian Morgner,
Jake Edge, Jeff Garzik, Jens Axboe, Jerry Cooperstein, Jerome Peter Lynch, Michael
Kerrisk, Paul Kinzelman, and Raph Levien. Reviewers for the third edition were
Allan B. Cruse, Christian Morgner, James Bottomley, Jerry Cooperstein, Patrick
Mochel, Paul Kinzelman, and Robert Love. Together, these people have put a vast
amount of effort into finding problems and pointing out possible improvements to
our writing.
Last but certainly not least, we thank the Linux developers for their relentless work.
This includes both the kernel programmers and the user-space people, who often get
forgotten. In this book, we chose never to call them by name in order to avoid being
unfair to someone we might forget. We sometimes made an exception to this rule
and called Linus by name; we hope he doesn’t mind.
Jon
I must begin by thanking my wife Laura and my children Michele and Giulia for fill-
ing my life with joy and patiently putting up with my distraction while working on
this edition. The subscribers of LWN.net have, through their generosity, enabled
much of this work to happen. The Linux kernel developers have done me a great ser-
vice by letting me be a part of their community, answering my questions, and setting
me straight when I got confused. Thanks are due to readers of the second edition of
this book whose comments, offered at Linux gatherings over much of the world,
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