About the Authors


Ellen Siever is a writer and editor specializing in Linux and other open source topics. In addition to Linux in a Nutshell, she coauthored O'Reilly's Perl in a Nutshell. She is a longtime Linux and Unix user and was a programmer for many years until she decided that writing about computers was more fun.

Aaron Weber is a technical and marketing writer for Novell, Inc. and also contributed sections on GNOME and software management to O'Reilly's Running Linux. You can find him at secretlyironic.com.

Stephen Figgins administrates Linux servers for Sunflower Broadband in Lawrence, Kansas. He also writes, edits, and consults on computing topics. He balances this with his study of nature.Through the Plainscraft school of living (http://www.plainscraft.com), he teaches wilderness awareness and survival skills, including animal tracking, edible and medicinal plants, and matchless fire making.

Robert Love is a contributing editor at Linux Journal and authored Linux Kernel Development (Sams).He works in Novell's Ximian Desktop Group as a kernel hacker and graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in mathematics and computer science.

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author.He is also a happy husband, the father of four very cute children, and an amateur Talmudist (Babylonian and Jerusalem).Since late 1997, he and his family have been living in Israel.Arnold has been working with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. Arnold has also been a heavy awk user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of awk. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for awk. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation.



Linux in a Nutshell
Linux in a Nutshell
ISBN: 0596154488
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 147

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