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Mary Brady was the production editor and copyeditor for Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition. Ann Schirmer was the proofreader. Sarah Sherman and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Judy Hoer and Genevieve d’Entremont provided production assistance. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index.
Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by herself and Hanna Dyer. The cover image of a man with a bubble is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.
David Futato designed the interior layout. The chapter opening images are from the Dover Pictorial Archive, Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River, by William Thayer (The Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1888), and The Pioneer History of America: A Popular Account of the Heroes and Adventures, by Augustus Lynch Mason, A.M. (The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1884). This book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the ...
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