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When I began working with GNU/L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> in 1994, it was straight from
the DOS world. Though U<SMALL>NIX</SMALL> was unfamiliar territory, L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> books
assumed that anyone using L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> was migrating from System V or
BSD--systems that I had never heard of. It is a sensible adage to
create, for others to share, the recipe that you would most like to have had.
Indeed, I am not convinced that a single unifying text exists, even now,
without this book. Even so, I give it to you desperately incomplete; but
there is only so much one can explain in a single volume.
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I hope that readers will now have a single text to guide them through
all facets of GNU/L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL>.
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