About the contributors

The following is a list of people who have helped make this book possible. Much of my gratitude goes to every single one of them. If you feel like you should be on this list as well, please forgive me for forgetting you and drop me a line.

Main proof-readers

• Hanspeter Kunz
  
• Davor Ocelic
  
• Ian Travis
• Franz Mayer

Secondary proof-readers

• Gerfried Fuchs
• Don Armstrong
• Lorrin Nelson
• Martin Michlmayr
• Sean Finney
• Stephan Beal

Content advisors

• Goswin von Brederlow
• Jeroen van Wolffelaar
• Thomas Hood
• Marco d'Itri
• Joey Hess
• Roland Mas
• Frans Pop
• Christian Perrier
• Andres Salomon
• Martin Michlmayr
• Joshua M. Kwan
• Colin Watson
• Adeodato Simo
• Manoj Srivastava
• Branden Robinson
• Steve Langasek
• Andreas Barth
• Peter Palfrader
• Jaldhar Harshad Vyas
• Wouter Verhelst
• Javier Candeira
• Thiemo Seufert
• Matt Taggart
• Junichi Uekawa
• Thomas Lange
• Peter Grandi
• Matthias Klose
• Norbert Tretkowski
• Piotr Roszatycki
• Gerfried Fuchs
• Karsten M. Self
• Lars Wirzenius
• Helen Faulkner
• Benjamin Mako Hill
• Klaus Knopper
• Pierre Morel
• Warren Woodford
• David Kammerer
• Dirk Eddenbuettel
• Many other regulars of the #debian-devel/irc.freenode.org IRC channel
• The NetBSD team
• The Gentoo developers
• Raphaël Hertzog
• Roland Mas
  
• Kenshi Muto
• Junichi Uekawa

Translators

• Ute Hertzog (German)
• Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas (French)
  
• Kenshi Muto and Junichi Uekawa (Japanese)
  

Resources

• The Wikipedia encyclopedia — thanks to all the contributors
• The search engines:
  • Google
  • AllTheWeb
  • Andy Vista
  • A9
  • Clusty
  • Eurekster
• Countless resources on the Web (individual locations recorded in the book)

Moral (and other) support

• Prof. Rolf Pfeifer of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich
• The other members of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich
• Aline Iosca
• Ruth and Dr. Hartmut Krafft
• Dr. Markus Wirtz of Open Source Press
• Peter Gabriel (for the tunes)