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Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux (Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing) Author(s): Manuel Ricart ISBN: 078971826x Publication Date: 12/22/98 function isIE4() { return( navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1 && (navigator.appVersion.charAt(0)=='4') ); } function bookMarkit() { var url="../../../../www.itknowledge.com/PSUser/EWBookMarks.html@url="+window.location+"&isbn=0"; parent.location.href=url; //var win = window.open(url,"myitk"); //if(!isIE4()) // win.focus(); } Search this book:   Table of Contents About the Author Manuel Alberto Ricart is a trainer and engineer for Paradigm Research, Inc. (http://www.pri.com), a Silicon Valley–based training company. Alberto develops instructional materials for Java and Internet programming technologies. Paradigm Research, Inc. delivers its training materials to a number of Fortune 500 and notable high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, MCI, Ford, and Netscape Communications, Inc. Alberto has been involved with computers since the late 1970s, when he was introduced to programming on a then–state-of-the-art IBM system 32, which had a whopping 32KB of RAM and a tiny hard disk. Since then, he has developed a number of software products for the Macintosh operating system (OS), the NEXTSTEP OS, and, more recently, Java. Alberto has also provided UNIX and Internet networking support to a wide range of clients since the mid-1980s. He holds both bachelor’s (1987) and master’s (1989) degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 1992, he founded a software company, SmartSoft, Inc., that developed a wide range of commercial object-oriented software tools for the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (UNIX) OS. His products were sold worldwide. In 1995, he cofounded a second firm dedicated to building Internet solutions that enabled companies to harness the Internet for business. His specialty is dynamic content-driven intranets and electronic commerce solutions. He has developed custom technologies used by notable companies such as Oshkosh B’Gosh and Warburg Pincus Funds. Alberto specializes in the invention and design of software products and tools. His focus is Internet and Web core technologies such as the Apache and Netscape Web servers, Perl, JavaScript, Java, and all the other technologies required to support them, such as UNIX network connectivity and administration. Since 1996, Alberto has used Linux extensively in the development and deployment of many Internet Web sites and intranet projects. His book Apache Server Survival Guide (published by sams.net, ISBN 1-57521-175-0) has been published in hard copy and included in two other electronic publications relating to the RedHat LINUX OS. Alberto can be reached at [e-mail], where he can usually be found tinkering with technologies all day long. Dedication To Diana, Julisa, Isabella, and Viviana: You make it all possible. Acknowledgments Writing a book is a monumental task that touches on the lives of many people. As usual, my personal monumental tasks get in queue during those times I tend to have more than enough to do. I am still trying to figure out a way of making the process easy on me and my family. Ideals are nice things. To my beautiful and wonderful wife, Diana, and my three beautiful girls, Julisa, Isabella, and Viviana, this book is for you. I know I blew a summer for the second time. I think I know how you feel. Knowing that single individuals cannot accomplish monumental tasks, many thanks are also needed for people whom I have never met in person, yet their periodical emails and phone calls made them seem closer than they are: Laura Bulcher for making sure that I wrote what I meant to say. Grace Buechlein for facilitating the many opportunities and making it all possible. Aron Hsiao and Jeff Perkins for playing the reader’s role and verifying that my writings are not fiction and that what I said works exactly how I say it does. (Any discrepancies are their fault and not mine A.) All others, anonymous editors and formatters whose names I have no idea of, for making the production of this book a reality. And, finally, Mr. Zero, Stephen Asbury—a friend since the NeXT days, with whom I share the unique pragmatic understanding of the good and evil in technology—for patiently listening to my colorful complaints while developing the “uphill” portion of this book. Note:  Linux is an evolving operating system. That’s why it’s all the more important for you to check the Caldera Systems Web site regularly for company announcements and software patches. 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