Ubuntu: Up and Running

Acknowledgments

A huge thank you goes to my editor, Andy Oram, for all his guidance and the tremendous amount of work and all the extra snippets of advice and information he put into making this book such a useful guide. And, as usual, the production staff at O’Reilly also did a magnificent job copyediting the text and designing the book’s format and layout. It’s a pleasure to work with you all.

With a book introducing something as complex as an operating system, it’s essential for it to be as accurate as possible, so I am also very grateful to the team of eagle-eyed technical reviewers: Lesley Harrison, Matthew Helmke, and Jeff Kite, who provided many excellent suggestions for improving the manuscript.

And, of course, this book wouldn’t exist without Canonical, GNU, Linux, and the many other organizations that have worked tirelessly for the best part of two decades to integrate a myriad of different parts into the whole known as Ubuntu. Because they number in the thousands, I don’t want to single out just a few of the contributors; instead, on behalf of all Ubuntu users, I would simply like to thank each and every person who has participated in creating such an amazing piece of software.