Beginning Unix

Paul Love (Cincinnati, OH), CISSP, CISA, CISM, Security+,has been in the IT field for 15 years. Paul holds a Masters ofScience degree in Network Security and a Bachelor's inInformation Systems. He has co-authored two Linux security books,contributed to multiple Linux/Unix books, and has been thetechnical editor for over 10 best selling Linux and Unix books.Paul also ran a successful Linux portal site during the dot com eraand has been an avid Unix/Linux user and administrator bothprofessionally and as a hobby for many years.Joe Merlino (Boston, MA) is an experienced systemadministrator with Unix and Linux for more than a decade.Craig Zimmerman (New York, NY) manages UNIX, Macintosh,and Windows systems for Spontaneous, a post-production company inNew York City. He previously worked at Chiat/Day helping build theworld's most famous virtual advertising agency, managing andnetworking Unix and Macintosh systems in multiple offices.Jeremy C. Reed (Marysville, WA) is a programmer, a memberof NetBSD, and has actively taught FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSDadministration classes for the past three years.Paul Weinstein (Chicago, IL) has worked on variousUnix-based computing platforms, from the mainframe (Harris HCX-9)to the desktop (Powerbook G4) and has developed applications onjust about all of the current major branches of Unix in the courseof the past 10 years. Recently he has been focusing a lot of hisattention on developing and integrating Web-based systems usingtools such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl, and in doing so hasbrought his unique understanding to a wide range of computingenvironments ranging from public elementary schools to pioneeringopen source companies. Currently, Paul works as President and ChiefConsultant for the computer consulting firm Kepler Solutions,Inc.David Mercer (Cape Town, South Africa) is a long-timeUnix user and PHP programmer who contributed to BeginningPHP4 and Beginning PHP5. He has maintained a keeninterest in all things open source ever since he managed to puttogether a working Beowulf cluster by nicking old computer partsfrom colleagues and assembling them under his desk.