Red Hat - The Complete Reference Enterprise Linux Fedora Edition

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Richard Petersen

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Vice President & Associate Publisher
Scott Rogers

Editorial Director
Tracy Dunkelberger

Project Editor
Carolyn Welch

Acquisitions Coordinator
Jessica Wilson

Technical Editor
Dean Henrichsmeyer

Technical Reviewer
Ibrahim Haddad

Copy Editor
Bob Campbell

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To my sisters-in-law, Marylou and Valerie

About the Author

Richard Petersen holds a M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Studies. He currently teaches Unix and C/C++ courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

About the Technical Reviewer

Ibrahim Haddad is a Researcher at the Open System Lab (Ericsson Corporate Unit of Research), located in Montreal, Canada. He is involved with the system architecture of third-generation wireless IP networks and represents Ericsson on the Technical Board of the Open Source Development Labs, the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group. His other commitments include serving as Contributing Editor to the Linux Journal and LinuxWorld magazine as well as contributing articles to the O'Reilly Network and Linux User & Developer magazine. He has delivered a number of presentations and tutorials at local universities, IEEE and ACM conferences, Open Source forums, and international conferences. Ibrahim contributed to Richard Petersen's book Red Hat Linux Pocket Administrator, published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne. He received his bachelor and master degrees in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University. He is currently a Dr. Sc. Candidate at Concordia University in Montreal. Academic awards include the "J. W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship" and the "Concordia University 25^th Anniversary Fellowship," both received in 2000.

About the Technical Editor

Dean Henrichsmeyer has been using Linux since 1995. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and has been an active member of the Linux community, presenting at Linux focused tradeshows such as LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. He's worked for VA Research (now known as VA Software) since 1999. He currently is working for OSDN, the Open Source Development Network, where, among other things, he is the site director for Linux.com.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all those at McGraw-Hill/Osborne, who made this book a reality: Tracy Dunkelberger, Editorial Director, for her continued encouragement and analysis as well as management of such a complex project; Dean Henrichsmeyer and Ibrahim Haddad, technical editor and technical reviewer, whose analysis and suggestions proved very insightful and helpful; Jessica Wilson, acquisitions coordinator, who provided needed resources and helpful advice; Bob Campbell, copy editor, for excellent editing as well as his insightful comments; and project editor Carolyn Welch, who incorporated the many features found in this book and coordinated the intricate task of generating the final version. Thanks also to Scott Rogers who initiated the project.

Special thanks to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and to those who continue to develop Linux as an open, professional, and effective operating system accessible to anyone. Thanks also to the academic community, without whose special dedication Unix would not be the flexible and versatile operating system it is today. I would also like to thank professors and students at the University of California, Berkeley, for their experience and support in developing new and different ways of understanding operating system technologies.

I would also like to thank my parents, George and Cecelia, and my brothers George, Robert, and Mark for their support and encouragement with such a difficult project. Also Valerie and Marylou and my nieces and nephews Aleina, Larisa, Justin, Christopher, and Dylan, for their support and deadline reminders.

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