Preface

LNAG License

The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide (LNAG) ("The Guide") is distributed under the Open Content Licence (http://opencontent.org/openpub/) with the following addition:

THE GUIDE IS BEING INCREMENTALLY UPDATED. THEREFORE, TO PROVIDE THE BEST VALUE TO OUR READERS, UNLESS THE GUIDE HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFIED BY AUTHOR(S) OTHER THAN THE ORIGINAL GUIDE AUTHORS, ANY DISTRIBUTOR SHALL DISTRIBUTE A REASONABLY RECENT VERSION OF THE GUIDE, I.E., ITS MOST RECENT VERSION OR A VERSION NOT OLDER THEN ONE YEAR ON THE DATE OF WEB SERVING, CD WRITING, OR HARD COPY PRINTING. THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THE GUIDE IS AVAILABLE AT HTTP://LNAG.SOURCEFORGE.NET.

THIS LICENCE MEANS THAT ANY PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE MIRROR MUST BE UPDATED AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR, IF A NEWER VERSION OF THE GUIDE IS AVAILABLE. PLEASE DO NOT CREATE A MIRROR IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO UPDATE IT.

All the code examples are distributed under the GNU General Public Licence (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

The maintainers of this Guide (Stan and Peter Klimas) can be contacted by email: LinuxNAG at Gmail.com The latest version of this guide is available at http://lnag.sourceforge.net.
This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0, 8 or later http://opencontent.org/openpub/

Acknowledgments

The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide (LNAG) is hosted FREE OF CHARGE on the DotSrc.org server at Aalborg University, Denmark http://lnag.sourceforge.net. Thanks to Esben Haabendal Soerensen <bart@sunsite.auc.dk>.

Thanks to Kenan Bektas, VP Engineering for hosting our free, timely updated North American mirror: (http://dbstreams.ca/mirrors/linux-newbie/). Thanks to Andamooka for hosting LNAG among their great free books. We have to figure how to update it.

Major help and advice was received from (alphabetical order): Alan W. Irwin <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>, Benjamin Smith <bens@saber.net>, Barbara Klimas, Ben McCosh, Bill Staehle <staehle@netvalue.net>, Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca>, Brian Kelsay <ripcrd6@kcinter.net>, Ding-Hou Lee <dl105@columbia.edu>, Gary <swear@aa.net>, Greg Mizell <GMizell@peek-traffic.com>, Jaakko Alarto <pikkumyy@ikiliekki.org>, Jeff Greenlee <greenj@analogy.com>, jeff covey <jeff.covey@pobox.com>, Jo <rainbow@linuxfocus.org>, Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@st.jyu.fi>, Ken Foskey <waratah@zip.com.au>. Special thanks to the Portland Linux User Group for review!

Thanks to the several dozen others who sent comments, minor corrections, good suggestions, or good word to us. We always appreciate any feedback. We received no flames so far :-) . Sorry if we could not answer specific questions you sent us on your particularly annoying problem :(( Sorry we are unable to provide free support for individual users. Sorry we do not provide any support to MS Windows users.

Thanks to the few thousands who developed GNU/Linux. Should I mention Richard Stalman and Linus Torvalds by name?

Other Matters

You can see that this guide was written by newbies for newbies. It should never be considered an authoritative source on any topic-there are much more exhaustive docs, typically more difficult to read too :-), most of them available right on your Linux system in the directory /usr/doc . Please e-mail us immediately if you spot a mistake that can confuse or mislead a new Linux user-this work is in progress and the current version may contain such mistakes. Don't use this guide if your life or well-being was to depend on it!

If you wanted to contribute a part (on a useful Linux topic of your choice), we would like to hear from you-we will be happy to include a part with your name, etc. The only condition is that your advice be easy to follow by newbies like us.

If you create your own mirror, pls make sure to update it at least from time to time. LNAG is under development and inaccuracies are found and corrected on regular basis. Our licence requires updates (if available on http://lnag.sourceforge.net) else please remove your outdated mirror.

Hope this helps. Best regards, Stan and Peter Klimas (LinuxNAG at gmail.com)