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.
The cover image of a cowboy 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). Lar Kaufman suggested the western theme for O’Reilly’s Linux series.
Maureen Dempsey copyedited Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Second Edition ; Ann Schirmer proofread the text. Claire Cloutier, Catherine Morris, and Mary Sheehan provided quality control. Robert Romano and Rhon Porter created the illustrations using Adobe Photoshop 5 and Macromedia FreeHand 8. Judy Hoer wrote the index. Compositors include Ann Schirmer, Mary Sheehan, Gabe Weiss, and Sarah Jane Shangraw.
Hanna Dyer designed the cover layout based on a series design by Edie Freedman. Emma Colby produced the cover with QuarkXPress 3.32 and Adobe Photoshop 5.5 software, using the ITC Garamond Condensed font. Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layouts, based on a series design created by Edie Freedman and Jennifer Niederst and modified by Nancy Priest. Chapter opening graphics are from the Dover Pictorial Archive and Marvels of the New West.
Whenever possible, our books use RepKover?, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover’s limit, perfect binding is used.
Interior fonts are Adobe ITC Garamond and ConstantWillison. 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 O’Reilly by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU gtroff -gs macros; Lenny Muellner adapted the macros to SGML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.09 was used to generate PostScript output; this output was distilled to PDF for use at press.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.