About the Author

Richard Petersen holds a M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Studies (UC Berkeley). He is the author of numerous books on C programming, UNIX, and Linux. Currently he is the publisher for Surfing Turtle Press, specializing on books for Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. His research background includes artificial intelligence applications to information retrieval. He has taught computer science programming and Unix at UC Berkeley.

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