The author and maintainer of the Linux Kernel-HOWTO is Brian Ward
(bri@blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at). Please send me any comments, additions,
corrections (Corrections are, in particular, the most important to me.).
You can take a look at my `home page' at one of these URLs:
http://www.math.psu.edu/ward/
http://blah.math.tu-graz.ac.at/~bri/
Even though I try to be attentive as possible with mail, please remember that I get a lot of it every day, so it may take a little time to get back to you. Especially when emailing me with a question, please try extra hard to be clear and detailed in your message. If you're writing about non-working hardware (or something like that), I need to know what your hardware configureation is. If you report an error, don't just say ``I tried this but it gave an error;'' I need to know what the error was. I would also like to know what versions of the kernel, gcc, and libc you're using. If you just tell me you're using this-or-that distribution, it won't tell me much at all. I don't care if you ask simple questions; remember, if you don't ask, you may never get an answer! I'd like to thank everyone who has given me feedback.
If you mailed me and did not get an answer within a resonable amount of time (three weeks or more), then chances are that I accidentally deleted your message or something (sorry). Please try again.
I get a lot of mail about thing which are actually hardware problems or
issues. That's OK, but please try to keep in mind that I'm not familiar
with all of the hardware in the world and I don't know how helpful I can
be; I personally use machines with IDE
and SCSI disks, SCSI CD-ROMs, 3Com and WD ethernet cards, serial mice,
motherboards with PCI, NCR 810 SCSI controllers, AMD 386DX40 w/Cyrix copr.,
AMD 5x86, AMD 486DX4, and Intel 486DX4 processors (This is an overview of
what I use and am familiar with, certainly not a recommendation, but if you
want that, you're more than welcome to ask :-) ).
Version -0.1 was written on October 3, 1994. This document is available in SGML, PostScript, TeX, roff, and plain-text formats.
The ``Tips and tricks'' section is a little small. I hope to expand on it with suggestions from others.
So is ``Additional packages.''
More debugging/crash recovery info needed.
A small part of Linus' README (kernel hacking options) is inclusive. (Thanks, Linus!)
uc@brian.lunetix.de (Ulrich Callmeier): patch -s and xargs.
quinlan@yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan): corrections and
additions in many sections.
nat@nat@nataa.fr.eu.org (Nat Makarevitch): mrproper, tar -p, many
other things
boldt@math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt): collected descriptions of
kernel configuration options on the net; then provided me with the list
lembark@wrkhors.psyber.com (Steve Lembark): multiple boot
suggestion
kbriggs@earwax.pd.uwa.edu.au (Keith Briggs): some corrections and
suggestions
rmcguire@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Ryan McGuire): makeables
additions
dumas@excalibur.ibp.fr (Eric Dumas): French translation
simazaki@ab11.yamanashi.ac.jp (Yasutada Shimazaki): Japanese translation
jjamor@lml.ls.fi.upm.es (Juan Jose Amor Iglesias): Spanish translation
mva@sbbs.se (Martin Wahlen): Swedish translation
jzp1218@stud.u-szeged.hu (Zoltan Vamosi): Hungarian translation
bart@mat.uni.torun.pl (Bartosz Maruszewski): Polish translation
donahue@tiber.nist.gov (Michael J Donahue): typos, winner of the
``sliced bread competition''
rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman):
``free'' documentation concept/distribution notice
dak@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (David Kastrup): NFS thing
esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric Raymond): various tidbits
The people who have sent me mail with questions and problems have also been quite helpful.
Copyright (c) Brian Ward, 1994-1997.
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Warranty: None.
Recommendations: Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, it is strongly recommended that the redistributor contact the author before the redistribution, in the interest of keeping things up-to-date (you could send me a copy of the thing you're making while you're at it). Translators are also advised to contact the author before translating. The printed version looks nicer. Recycle.