ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not exist without decades of support from the FreeBSD community. Many people have told me that they reach for my books to learn how to accomplish something. What they don’t see is how many times I’ve reached out to mailing lists, forums, and user groups to get that same sort of help—not to mention all the times I’ve used other people’s archived discussions to figure out where I went horribly wrong. In addition to all those folks who’ve gone before me, though, I need to name those who helped me on this particular book.

Gavin Atkinson, Diane Bruce, Julian Elischer, Lars Engels, Alex Kozlov, Steven Kreuzer, Ganael Laplanche, Greg “Groggy” Lehey, Warner Losh, Remko Lodder, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov, Hiren Panchasara, Colin Percival, Matthew Seaman, Lev Serebryakov, Carlo Strub, Romain Tartière, and Thomas Zander all provided vital feedback on earlier versions of this book. Some of them read individual chapters that they have special expertise in, while others read the whole blasted book whether they knew the topic or not. Both kinds of feedback are invaluable. John Baldwin, Benno Rice, and George Neville-Neil collaborated on performing a final technical review, catching errors that ranged from the subtly horrific to the blatantly appalling. Any errors that remain in this book were introduced by myself, despite all these people’s best efforts.

I’ve also received years of support from Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling of the BSDNow (https://www.bsdnow.tv/) podcast, along with alumnus Kris Moore. They’ve backed my work even when they had no idea what the heck I was doing. Their show is a great source of BSD-related news, education, and gossip. (It’s a community. There’s always gossip.) Just this week, they walked me through understanding the scheduler in a way I never have before.

Bert JW Regeer donated $800 to the FreeBSD Foundation for the dubious privilege of being abused in this book. I sincerely thank Bert for being a good sport, and handling all the indignities I heap upon him with grace and aplomb.

Of all the folks who back me on Patreon, I must especially thank Stefan Johnson and Kate Ebneter. Because that’s what their Patreon reward levels say I’ll do. So: thank you!

Janelle over at No Starch Press had the unenviable job of shepherding this book through production, which is kind of like herding cats except the cats are angry and have switchblades. Thank you for dragging this tome across the finish line. I also need to thank the rest of the No Starch staff, who suffered through transforming my meandering babblings into a real book.

And as always, my gratitude to my amazing wife Liz.