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Credits

• George Wright [Hack #74] is a student living in London, hoping to study

computer science at university when he’s old enough. In his spare time

he’s a developer on the KDE Project and occasionally works on embed-

ded Linux systems.

Acknowledgments

Nicholas Petreley

I would like to thank God, above all, for anything that is excellent in my

contributions to this book. I offer many thanks to David Brickner for his

patience in giving advice and corrections during the editing process. Thanks

as well to the entire O’Reilly production crew. Thanks to Kyle Rankin and

Jonathan Oxer for their input during the review process. I would also like to

thank my readers, contributors, and assistant web masters for their help,

encouragement, and inspiration offered at my web site, VarLinux.org.

Thanks also to the encouragement of my readers in other publications and

to the many wonderful people I’ve met (either for the first time or for the

first time face-to-face) at LinuxWorld Expo and other various conferences.

Thanks to my heroes Tim O’Reilly, Bob Young, Jon “Maddog” Hall, Linus

Torvalds, Alan Cox, Hans Reiser, Con Kolivas, Richard Stallman, and the

many more sung and unsung heroes of the Linux and open source worlds. I

thank my family for patiently allowing me to sleep through quality time we

would have spent together after I stayed up all night so that I could have

more consecutive hours of quiet