Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. Thayer gives the following history of this graphic: "This illustration is not a fancy sketch. It is the photo graph of a stockman, taken when he was mounted and ready to start for his ranch a few score of mile away. Wearing half an acre of hat' to protect his face from the hot sun, with a scarf about his neck for a like purpose, and his apparel well adapted to his business, his appearance is so changed that an intro duction to his own wife may be quite necessary. He may be a millionaire, though he looks like a shack. He may be proud as Lucifer, but necessity arrays him in a homely dress; and he appears humble. Seated upon a Mexican saddle, which cost a hundred dollars, if it is a good one, and drawing upon the reins of a bridle that cost twenty-five or fifty more, if it is worthy of an aspiring stockman, he put spurs to his horse, and is off in a jiffy. Grass does not grow under his horse's feet. The animal is trained to the saddle, and the stockman is trained to him, and the two are so trained together, that they fly over the plain as if they were one thing, as much as the parts of a whole. It is a lonely ride to his ranch, forty, fifty, sixty, perhaps a hundred miles away; but his head is full of business and his heart of contentment-about the happiest looking man, though he may be the homeliest, to be found within cattledom. If he happens to pass a prai rie post-office, the unique affair serves to remind him that humans do live in thesilent and solemn country' through which he is passing." .LP Edie Freedman designed the cover of Linux Network Administrator's Guide. The cover image is adapted from a 19th-century engraving from Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River, by William Thayer (The Henry Bill Publishing Co., Norwich, CT, 1888). ... The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 and Adobe Photoshop 2.5 software, using the ITC Garamond Condensed font. .LP Jennifer Niederst and Edie Freedman designed the interior layouts. Chapter opening graphics are from the Dover Pictorial Archive and Marvels of the New West. Interior fonts are Adobe ITC Garamond and Adobe Courier. Text was prepared in SGML using the DocBook 2.1 DTD. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at ORA by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU gtroff -gs macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.08 was used to generate PostScript output. .LP The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Aldus Freehand 4.0 by Chris Reilley.