Books by Matt Welsh

Matt Welsh is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley settling in sunny California after spending time wandering around Europe and braving the harsh winters of upstate New York. He has been a long-time Linux advocate and developer, a role which saw him fielding questions from thousands of Linux users over the years. Matt was the original coordinator of the Linux Documentation Project and author of the seminal Linux Installation and Getting Started Guide. More recently, he has been promoting the use of Linux for supercomputing applications through the Extreme Linux working group. At Berkeley, his research involves the intersection of next-generation Internet systems and high-performance computing. His varied and sundry interests include world travel, Zen Buddhism, experimental music, and backpacking. Matthias Kalle Dalheimer works as an independent author, translator and software consultant in Northern Germany, where he lives in a tiny village with his wife and son. After studying computer science and general linguistics, he first worked for Star Division, where he was responsible for porting the office suite Star Office to Linux. In spring 1997, he quit his job and became a happy freelancer. Kalle mainly uses Linux for his development work and uses XEmacs 20.4 for most of his programming and writing tasks. In his spare time, he plays with his son, hikes in the surrounding forests, reads books about history, and helps develop the K Desktop Environment, a free desktop for Unix systems. He has written Programming with Qt for O'Reilly & Associates, and has written and translated a number of O'Reilly books in German. Lar Kaufman is a law student at Boston University, living in Concord, Massachusetts. He has worked as a documentation consultant for many years, and began writing about UNIX in 1983. Since then, he has written on System V, BSD, Mach, OSF/1, and Linux. His hobbies include interactive media as art/literature, homebuilt and antique aircraft (he's a licensed aircraft mechanic), and natural history. Formerly a BBS operator, in 1987 Lar founded the Fidonet echoes (newsgroups) Biosphere and BioNews. He is currently working on a project to develop a media lab incorporating adaptive technology for print-disabled use through the law library where he studies. The lab will use a Linux server and provide user services on Windows NT, Macintosh, and Linux systems.