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Abstract
Audience: this book is intended for (Unix) system engineers and system administrators with at least 3 years of practical experience with Unix, preferably Linux.
Approach: We wanted to create a set of documents that could help us and others to build, maintain and recreate a programming environment for programmers. Items described in this book are the installation and configuration of a PXE bootserver, the installation and configuration of a (Kickstart) software repository, how to maintain workstation configurations using PHP, CVS and MySQL.
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Sources: Our sources of information were (Open Source) material on the Internet, several books, practical experience of the authors and others and research done by the authors. We try to give credit where due, but are fallible. We apologize.
While every precaution was made in the preparation of this book, we can assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. When you feel we have not given you proper credit or feel we may have violated your rights or when you have suggestions how we may improve our work please notify us immediately so we can take corrective actions.
Organization of this book: This book was written using the DocBook V4.2/XML documentation standard.
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