About the Authors

Bill von Hagen has been a Unix system administrator for 20 years and a Linux fanatic since 1993. He has also worked as a systems programmer, product manager, writer, application developer, drummer, and content manager.

Bill has written or cowritten books on such topics as Linux filesystems, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, GCC, SGML, Mac OS X, Linux system administration, and hacking the TiVo. He has written numerous articles on Linux, Unix, and open source topics for publications including Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Linux Format, and Mac Format. An avid computer collector specializing in workstations, he owns more than 200 computer systems and wants more. You can reach him at [e-mail].

Brian K. Jones (Jonesy) has been a Unix and Linux system and network administrator for six years. He has also held positions and consulted in the capacity of database administrator, web developer, project manager, instructional speaker, technical writer and editor, and studio musician, for clients large and small.

In the past, Brian has written extensively on topics revolving around Linux and open source software for Linux.com, Newsforge, and Linux Magazine, and he has served as author and Editor-in-Chief of php|architect magazine. In his copious free time (right), Brian enjoys playing billiards and guitar, woodworking, and writing code. He has worked as a system and network administrator for the computer science department at Princeton University since 2001, and as a part-time infrastructure computing consultant since 2000. You can reach him at [e-mail].