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Please send me your comments on this FAQ.
I accept contributions to the FAQ in any format. All contributions, comments, and corrections are gratefully received. Please send e-mail to kiesling@terracom.net.
If you wish to refer to a question in the FAQ, it's better for me if you do so by the question heading, rather than number. The question numbers are generated automatically, and I don't see them in the source file I edit.
I prefer comments in English to patch files--context diff is not my first language.
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This FAQ is compiled and maintained by Robert Kiesling kiesling@ix.netcom.com, with assistance and comments from Linux activists all over the world.
Special thanks are due to Matt Welsh, who moderated comp.os.linux.announce and comp.os.linux.answers, coordinated the HOWTO's and wrote substantial portions of many of them, Greg Hankins and Timothy Bynum, the former and current Linux Documentation Project HOWTO maintainers, Lars Wirzenius and Mikko Rauhala, the former and current moderators of comp.os.linux.announce, Marc-Michel Corsini, who wrote the original Linux FAQ, and Ian Jackson, the previous FAQ maintainer. Thanks also to Roman Maurer for his many updates and additions, especially with European Web sites, translations, and general miscellany.
Last but not least, thanks to Linus Torvalds and the other contributors to Linux for giving us something to talk about!
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