July 2010
Beginner to intermediate
1344 pages
40h 20m
English
book
Unix® and Linux® System Administration Handbook, Fourth Edition
by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
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This book was for the most part written and produced on Windows systems. We used Adobe FrameMaker for layout and a variety of other Adobe applications for illustrations and production. Some contributors ran FrameMaker under Wine on Linux systems (see page 1139). One author ran FrameMaker on a virtualized Windows system under Mac OS X. (See tinyurl.com/vmwrite for details.) These virtualized environments worked well.
Lisa Haney drew the interior cartoons with a 0.05mm Staedtler pigment liner, then scanned them and converted them to 1200dpi bitmaps. The cover artwork was executed on black Ampersand Clayboard (a scratchboard) with Dr. Martin’s Dyes for color. After scanning, the cover art was color-corrected in Photoshop and the layout ...
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