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>Securing and Optimizing Linux: RedHat Edition -A Hands on Guide</TH
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>Preface</TD
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>4. DocBook/<SPAN
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>With the sole intent of making this book future proof, I have ported ( i am not sure this is the right term)
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this entire book into DocBook/<SPAN
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>.That the source being Markedup in <SPAN
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this ensures:
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> It will become platform independant and the source is not in any proprietory format like word.
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With the never version of browsers supporting Raw <SPAN
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being a seperate component, that this remains ready for that day when it becomes possible to have it converted on the fly.
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> That in the eventuality of me not being involved in the project at a later date, with the
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advent of professionals, there will be enough warm bodies to do this job.
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>My fond hope is that this should not turn out be just a futile excersize and it proves usefull to everybody;
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atleast to some people even they are a small minority, the least of all to Gerhard Mourani, who is the author of
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this splendid book.</P
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> The idea behind this exercize primarily has been :
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spearheading the spirit of sharing.
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> To create awareness about possibilities existing with the available tools set.
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> But in the process some mistakes might have creeped in but there can be no excuse. Since this book has been looked at twice over; but still, i think the mistakes are entirely mine,
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if at all and not Gerhard's. So if you spot some glaring mistakes whether be it in the form of wrong or mis-information, typos or grammatical mistakes please do inform me at
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>needaguru@yahoo.com</A
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> or you can even inform gerhard at <TT
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>. I am sure he will give a wallop on my backside( it is quite fragile!) so that such mistakes don't happen next time.
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Also welcome are the suggestions on how we could improve on this, so that next time round it will much be better.
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> Here is hoping that this proves useful despite those already mentioned, creeped in mistakes, errors <SPAN
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> and it kindles in you the same spirit which has embodied the growth of Linux as a powerful environement to work in.
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And if that happens i would consider myself highly obliged and this will prove to be a satisfying endevour for me personally. I have a feeling that the orginal author of this book Gerhard Mourani shares this thought of
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mine and probably agrees with me.
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