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Preface
Apart from being the overall editor, Andy contributed the Unix tutorial chapter and
the Gaim section as well as material for the X and Perl sections. It was Andy who
approached us about writing for O’Reilly in the first place, and he has demonstrated
the patience of a saint when waiting for our updates to trickle in.
Because this book has grown so much in size and scope, its topics have become too
diverse for one person, or even a small set of coauthors. Therefore, we have drawn in
experts in a number of subject areas, listed near the beginning of the preface, to write
substantial material.
We would also like to thank the following people for their work on the Linux operat-
ing system—without all of them, there wouldn’t be anything to write a book about:
Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Donald Becker, Alan Cox, Remy Card, Eric Ray-
mond, Ted T’so, H. J. Lu, Miguel de Icaza, Ross Biro, Drew Eckhardt, Ed Carp, Eric
Youngdale, Fred van Kempen, Steven Tweedie, Patrick Volkerding, Dirk Hohndel,
Matthias Ettrich, and all of the other hackers, from the kernel grunts to the lowly
docos, too numerous to mention here.
Special thanks to the following people for their contributions to the Linux Documen-
tation Project, technical review of this book, or general friendliness and support: Phil
Hughes, Melinda McBride, Bill Hahn, Dan Irving, Michael Johnston, Joel Gold-
berger, Michael K. Johnson, Adam Richter, Roman Yanovsky, Jon Magid, Erik
Troan, Lars Wirzenius, Olaf Kirch, Greg Hankins, Alan Sondheim, Jon David, Anna
Clark, Adam Goodman, Lee Gomes, Rob Walker, Rob Malda, Jeff Bates, and Volker
Lendecke.
For the third edition, we thank Phil Hughes, Robert J. Chassell, Tony Cappellini,
Craig Small, Nat Makarevitch, Chris Davis, Chuck Toporek, Frederic HongFeng,
and David Pranata for wide-ranging comments and corrections. Particularly impres-
sive were the efforts put in by an entire team of Debian developers and users, orga-
nized for us by Ossama Othman and Julian T. J. Midgley. Julian set up a CVS
repository for comments, and the book was examined collectively by him, Chris
Lawrence, Robert J. Chassell, Kirk Hilliard, and Stephen Zander.
For the fourth edition, we thank David Collier-Brown, Oliver Flimm, Phil Hughes,
Chris Lawrence, Rich Payne, Craig Small, Jeff Tranter, and Aaron Weber for their
reviews.
For the fifth edition, we thank Ben Hyde, Cheridy Jollie, Chris Lawrence, Ellen
Siever, and Jeff Tranter.
Kalle would like to thank Valerica Vatafu from Buzau, Romania, for lots of help with
the chapter about LAMP. He would also like to thank his colleagues in his company
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB—Michel Boyer de la Giroday, Tanja Dalheimer, Stef-
fen Hansen, Jesper Pedersen, Lutz Rogowski, Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Tobias Larsson,
Romain Pokrzywka, David Faure, Marc Mutz, Tobias Larsson, and Till Adam—for
their constructive comments on drafts of the book as well as for being general “Linux
thought amplifiers.”
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