Richard Petersen (Alameda, CA) has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four previous editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner's Guide, and many other titles. Ibrahim Haddad (Quebec, Canada) is a researcher at the Ericsson Corporate Unit of Research (Open Systems Lab) in Montreal, Canada, where he is involved with the system architecture of third generation wireless IP networks. He has presented several talks and tutorials at local universities, user groups, and conferences such as Ottawa Linux Symposium 2002. Ibrahim represents Ericsson on the Open Source Development Lab Carrier-Grade Linux Technical Board and sub-groups. He is also a Contributing Editor for the Linux Journal.

1: Basic System Administration 2: Managing Users 3: Software Management 4: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 5: File System Administration 6: RAID and LVM 7: Devices and Modules 8: Print Servers 9: Kernel Administration A: Service Management Tools: chkconfig and redhat-config-services