James Kent Lewis - Linux Utilities Cookbook

James Kent Lewis has been in the computer industry for over 30 years. He started out writing BASIC programs in high school and used punch cards in college for his Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language classes. Jim taught himself the C programming language by writing various utilities, including a fully-functional text editor, which he uses everyday. He started out using DOS and AIX, and then OS/2. Linux is now his operating system of choice.

Jim has worked in the past for several companies, including IBM, Texas Instruments, Tandem, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, and others. Most of these positions dealt with low-level device drivers and operating system internals. In his spare time, he likes to create video games in Java.

Jim has written articles for IBM Developer Works and has one patent.

First, I would like to thank Red Hat for creating a great OS. I used Fedora 17 to develop this book and it worked flawlessly. I would also like to thank my brother David for letting me bounce ideas off of him. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my girlfriend, Gabriele. Her patience was greatly appreciated, and she also helped by lending me her Ubuntu laptop from time to time.

Samarendra Manohar Hedaoo is currently working towards the automation of the IT infrastructure at SocialTwist (http://www.socialtwist.com) using Puppet. He has around two years' experience in IT, most of which he has worked on creating and tweaking existing solutions for automation. He is an alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, where he spent most of his time on creating and implementing internal solutions for academic and official purposes of Symbiosis, including software that printed his own graduation degree. He also has a bit of experience in writing, which he did mostly at the organizations that he worked for, documenting solutions that he created, and also producing short tutorials for internal use. He has a keen interest in anthropology and would like to work on applying AI to the field of anthropology, someday. He enjoys reading technical books that explain technology using stories and non-technical books that talk about various aspects of daily life.

Jitesh Marathe has more than 14 years' experience in IT. He currently works with the MNC Product company as a Staff Engineer, where he acts as POC for projects and acting architect for a few of them, which involves designing and implementation of project and guiding teams though the project life cycle.

He is a graduate in Computer Applications and has spent a major time frame of his career, acting as a system administrator; he has close links with Linux/Unix and system administrator- related jobs.

He holds a passion for reading books and travelling to new places with his family.

Young-Ho Song has spent over 10 years working as a software engineer for IT companies that specialize in the pay TV industry and networking devices. He currently manages a global team of software engineers who work on a variety of difference subjects, and he has the responsibility to ensure that all Linux-based STBs (Set-Top Boxes) including NDS CA (Conditional Access) system are securely protected by Linux hardening review. He's also very familiar with RTOS (Real Time OS) embedded systems, multimedia delivery systems, and network security. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering. You can refer to the following site for further information about him: https://sites.google.com/site/profileyhsong.

All the following books were written by him (co-authored) and were published in Korea:

Gene Wilburn is a Canadian writer, photographer, and computer specialist residing in Port Credit, Ontario, near Toronto. He has worked on various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including AIX, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. He has been a programmer, database analyst, infrastructure specialist, and technical lead on projects. He has worked at Micromedia Ltd., Ontario Training Corporation, Royal Ontario Museum, and Canada Life. He is currently self employed.

As a writer, his work has appeared in Small Print Magazine, PC Week, Shutterbug, Infoworld, InfoAge, Toronto Star, Computing Canada, Computer Paper, Access, Here's How!, and Photo Life. He is the author of Northern Journey: A Guide to Canadian Folk Music on CD, Reference PressRecreational Writing, lulu.com and Markdown for Writers . He is a co-author of Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed , and he wrote the popular Linux for Newbies, Wilburn Communications Ltd. and Linux Inside, Wilburn Communications Ltd., and columns for The Computer Paper (Canada). His website is genewilburn.com.

I would like to thank Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for creating Unix and C, and all the people who have subsequently developed Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android.