1.2. Aknowledgements

Most of the information provided here come from research made in HP documentations, files provided with Linux kernel sources, the FAQ of the Usenet newsgroup news:comp.sys.hp.hpux with a HTML version available on all mirror sites like the CICT, my own experience on HP products, a lot of tests and deployments realised, and remarks from Linux users as well as many HP's engineers.

Numerous people have contributed to this document and augmented its contents. You'll find the most complete possible list in the Chapter 8. I would like to thank just now, without any particular order, those without whom this document would simply not exist :

• Marc Hia Balié <[email protected]>, who ordered that document and accepted to make it a free documentation.

• Linus Torvalds, for the Linux project (without it, nothing would exist).

• Richard Stallman, for the GNU project (without it, nothing would exist either).

• Nat Makarévitch <[email protected]>, for his work as translator and his advocacy conferences.

• Xavier Cazin <[email protected]>, for his talent to convince me to use DocBook.

• Eric Dumas <[email protected]>, for the management of the french LDP.

• Rémy Card <[email protected]>, for ext2 and his love of electricity :-)

• René Cougnenc, to have helped a lot of people to begin with Linux, including myself.

• Dany Coffineau <[email protected]>, for teachnig me Unix.

• François Strobel <[email protected]>, for his peacefulness and legendary patience :-)

• Frédéric Dubuy <[email protected]>, who contributed to the writing of that document and took all the work I couldn't achieve, while I was writing it. Without saying he's also the graphist of the logo !

• Alain Pascal <[email protected]>, for the several tests made.

• Pascal Lemonnier <[email protected]> typography expert who found a lot of typos.

• Ralf S. Engelschall <[email protected]>, who realised the wml tool set, used to manage the languages of this document.

• Cees de Groot <[email protected]>, who realised the SGMLTools used to generate the first version of this document.

• Norman Walsh <[email protected]>, who realised the SGML DTD DocBook. which allows to generate all the versions of this document from a single SGML source.

• James Clark <[email protected]>, who realised the tool Jade.

• Cornec family <[email protected]>, for his patience and his support.