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14. Misc
14.1 Author 
The author and maintainer of the Linux Kernel-HOWTO is Brian Ward Brian Ward . 
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/bri/
    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 your question does not relate to the kernel, or is in some language that I 
don't understand, I may not answer. 
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. I use AMD processors, Adaptec and Sybios SCSI 
controllers, and IBM SCSI disks. 
Version -0.1 was written on October 3, 1994. This document is available in SGML, 
PostScript, TeX, roff, and plain-text formats. 
14.2 To do 
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. 
14.3 Contributions 
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. 
14.4 Copyright notice, License, and all that stuff 
Copyright  Brian Ward, 1994-1999. 
Permission is granted to make and distribute copies of this manual provided the 
copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. 
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual 
under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the derived work is 
distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. 
Translations fall under the catagory of ``modified versions.'' 
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. 


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