12. Acknowledgments and Administrivia

A: Please send comments to the maintainer: David Merrill.

Contributions to the FAQ may be in any format. Comments and corrections are gratefully received.

If you wish to refer to a question in the FAQ, it's better to do so by the question heading instead of number. The question numbers are generated automagically, and I don't see them in the source file.

I prefer comments in English to patch files. Context diff is not my first language.

A: This document is available as an ASCII text file, an HTML World Wide Web page, Postscript, PDF, Plucker, and as a USENET news posting.

HTML is generated from SGML source using the Jade DSSSL interpreter by James Clark. Text versions are generated using lynx. These programs are found in most Linux distributions.

The Usenet version is posted regularly to news.answers, comp.answers, and comp.os.linux.misc. It is archived at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/misc.

The latest versions are available from the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.linuxdoc.org/.

A: This FAQ is compiled and maintained by David Merrill, david@lupercalia.net, with assistance and comments from Linux activists all over the world.

It was maintained by Robert Kiesling until January, 2002

Freddy Contreras, the_blur_oc@hotmail.com, designed and GPL'd the Linux Frequently Asked Questions logos that appear on www.mainmatter.com.

Special thanks are due to Matt Welsh, who moderated comp.os.linux.announce and comp.os.linux.answers, coordinated the HOWTO's and wrote substantial portions of many of them, Greg Hankins the former Linux Documentation Project HOWTO maintainer, Lars Wirzenius and Mikko Rauhala, the former and current moderators of comp.os.linux.announce, Marc-Michel Corsini, who wrote the original Linux FAQ, and Ian Jackson, the previous FAQ maintainer. Thanks also to Roman Maurer for his many updates and additions, especially with European Web sites, translations, and general miscellany.

Last but not least, thanks to Linus Torvalds and the other contributors to Linux for giving us something to talk about!

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Copyright (c) 2001 Robert Kiesling.

Copyright (c) 2002 David Merrill.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.

The maintainer would be happy to answer any questions regarding the copyright.