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\noindent UNIX is a trademark of X/Open. \\
Linux is not a trademark, and has no connection to
UNIX\tm\ or X/Open.\\
\noindent The X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. \\
\noindent MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. \\
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Copyright \copyright \ 1992--1996 \ Matt Welsh\\
Cornell University Computer Science Department \\
4130 Upson Hall \\
Ithaca, NY 14853 \\ USA \\ {\tt mdw@sunsite.unc.edu}

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{\em Linux Installation and Getting Started}
is a free document; you may reproduce and/or modify it under the
terms of version 2 (or, at your option, any later version) of the 
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This book is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

The text of the GNU General Public License is included in 
Appendix~\ref{gnu-license}.

The author encourages wide distribution of this book for personal 
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entact and the provisions of the GNU General Public License (see
Appendix~\ref{gnu-license}) are adhered to. The summary is that you 
may copy and distribute this book free of charge, or for a profit.
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Note that derivative works and translations of this document {\em must\/}
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book, you must make the source code (e.g., \LaTeX\ source) available
for your revisions. Please make revisions and updates available 
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consistent revisions to the Linux community.

The author encourages distributors of Linux software in any medium to 
use the book as an installation and new user guide. 
Given the copyright above, you are free to print and distribute copies
of this book with your software. If doing so, you may wish to include 
a short ``installation supplement'' for your release, or modify the
relevant sections of this book to reflect your product.

The author would like to know of any plans to publish and distribute 
this book commercially. In this way, we can ensure that you are kept 
up-to-date with new revisions. And, should a new version be right around 
the corner, you might wish to delay your publication of the book until it 
is available.

If you are distributing this book commercially, donations, royalties,
and/or printed copies are greatly appreciated by the author. Contributing
in this way shows your support for free software and the Linux Documentation 
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If you have questions or comments, please contact the author at
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