Acknowledgments
Nicholas Petreley
I would like to thank God, above all, for anything that is excellent
in my contributions to this book. I offer many thanks to David
Brickner for his patience in giving advice and corrections during the
editing process. Thanks as well to the entire
O'Reilly production crew. Thanks to Kyle Rankin and
Jonathan Oxer for their input during the review process. I would also
like to thank my readers, contributors, and assistant web masters for
their help, encouragement, and inspiration offered at my web site,
Cox, Hans Reiser, Con Kolivas, Richard Stallman, and the many more
sung and unsung heroes of the Linux and open source worlds. I thank
my family for patiently allowing me to sleep through quality time we
would have spent together after I stayed up all night so that I could
have more consecutive hours of quiet time to focus on the book. I
offer many thanks to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and the talented
folks in Redmond whose ongoing work in the areas of security, quality
assurance, and product licensing continues to contribute greatly to
the increasingly rapid adoption of Linux on the desktop. Finally, any
errors or anything lacking in excellence among my contributions to
this book I credit entirely to myself.
Jono Bacon
I would like to thank all of my family and friends for helping make
my contribution to this book possible. Everyone has been incredibly
supportive throughout the long tech edits, ramblings on the phone,
endless proofreads, and unashamed plugging of the book when it was
completed. I would also like to thank the various groups I am
involved with and their encouragement in my work. This includes
Wolves LUG, LUGRadio, OpenAdvantage, the Infopoint Project, and the
many friends I have met at conferences and in my daily work. Finally,
I would like to thank the readers of my work in Linux
Format, Linux User & Developer,
Linux Magazine, the O'Reilly
Network, and the other publications I write for.