Acknowledgments

SPECIAL THANKS to Mark Shuttleworth and Jane Silber for all their efforts to get this book out into the world for both new and veteran Ubuntu users. Thanks also to Victor Ferns, director of Canonical Ltd., for his attention to the project. Many people at Canonical provided immeasurable assistance in the production of this book.

We reached into the Ubuntu community for a top group of reviewers, each of whom greatly contributed to the strength of the manuscript, including Dennis Kaarsemaker, Matthew East, Jorge O. Casto, Quim Gil, Jonathan Riddell, and Dinko Korunic.

Other folks who helped shape the book in the beginning stages include Micah Anderson, Chris Negus, Peter C. Norton, and Scott Dier. Many thanks for those early insights.

We received a truly global response from the Ubuntu community when the call was put out on The Fridge for solutions to common problems. In less than a week we collected useful recipes from Alabama, Australia, California, England, Jamaica, Mauritius, Minnesota, the Netherlands, Paris, Quebec, and Sweden. Hearty thanks go to the following avid Ubuntu users for sharing their knowledge: David Bain, Alan Barnard, David Clayton, Manu Cornet, Scott Dier, Oskar Jönefors, Avinash Meetoo, Julien Rottenberg, Stephen Sandlin, David Symons, Paul van Genderen, and Andrew Zajac. James Stanger also pitched in with a very useful section on how to print from Ubuntu.

And finally we appreciate the efforts of the Prentice Hall team, including Debra Williams Cauley, Chris Zahn, Mark Taub, Noreen Regina, John Fuller, Elizabeth Ryan, Nancy Hendryx, and Kathy Glidden.