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Acknowledgments

This book is the result of many people's efforts, and as expected, it would be impossible to list them all here. First of all, we would like to thank Andy Oram, who did an excellent job of editing, writing, and whip-cracking to get this book into shape. 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 operating system — without all of them, there wouldn't be anything to write a book about: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Donald Becker, Alan Cox, Remy