About the Authors

David Bandel earned a Master of Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1989 at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. He retired from 20 years in the Army in February, 1996. While on active duty, he learned many of the basics of UNIX working on DEC 5000s running Ultrix and SUN SparcStations running SunOS 4. He has worked on a variety of systems and architectures, including Sparc Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and SCO OpenServer. In 1993, he began dabbling with Linux, a hobby that quickly grew on him. Currently, David is semi-retired and living in the Republic of Panama where he writes, does Linux/UNIX consulting, and works on his farm. He co-authored Que's Special Edition Using OpenLinux. He can be reached at david@pananix.com ...

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