1. Preface
Copyright and license information, as well as credits, are at the end
of this document.
This HOWTO is maintained by Bryan Henderson, bryanh@giraffe-data.com.
You can get the current version of this HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project.
This document is mainly geared toward Linux 2.4. It covers
secondarily earlier Linux. It covers newer Linux only partially, but
the author's goal to cover it completely in a future release. See
in particular Section 12.
The
subject changed quite a bit over the course of Linux 2.5 releases, and
this document ignores 2.5, since the 2.5 releases were not considered
production releases. Instead, the document treats all the changes in
2.5 releases as if they were new with Linux 2.6.
See Section 17 for a history of the document.