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Foreword |
In 1942, Winston Churchill described an early battle of WWII: “this is not the end—it is not even the beginning of the end—but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” I was reminded of these words when I was approached to write this Foreword for the fifth edition of UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook. The loss at sea of Evi Nemeth has been a great sadness for the UNIX community, but I’m pleased to see her legacy endure in the form of this book and in her many contributions to the field of system administration.
The way the world got its Internet was, originally, through UNIX. A remarkable departure from the complex and proprietary operating systems of its day, UNIX was minimalistic, tools-driven, portable, ...
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