Moore II, Eric Fischer, Mike Touloumtzis, and the Linux Documentation
Project for their work on what became the Debian Tutorial document.

Thanks to Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation for advice and
editing.

Thanks to Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor Grobman, James Treacy, Adam Di
Carlo, Tapio Lehtonen, and Stephane Bortzmeyer for their work on what
became a collection of installation documents.

Of course, it's impossible to thank the hundreds of Debian developers and
thousands of free software authors who gave us something to write about
and use.

Preface

``Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.''

This quote, penned by Nathaniel Branden, seems fitting nowhere moreso than
with the freewheeling computing industry. In the space of just a few
decades, lives the world over have been changed by computing technology.
We, the people behind the Free Software movement, are seeking to continue
this trend by truly opening up software to everyone - not just the few
people working for the companies that write it - but everyone. As part of
this goal, this book and CD contain a treasure chest of Free Software.
Over one thousand packages, including things such as the world's most
popular web server, can be found here. You can use this software for
everything from graphic design to SQL databases.

The Free Software revolution has taken the industry by storm. Linux,