About the Author
Sarath Lakshman is a 21 year old who was bitten by the Linux bug during his teenage
years. He is an undergraduate student of Computer Science and Engineering at Model
Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala.
Sarath is a life hacker who loves to explore innovations. He is a GNU/Linux enthusiast
and hactivist of free and open source software. He spends most of his time hacking
with computers and having fun with his great friends. Sarath is well known as the
developer of SLYNUX (2005)—a user friendly GNU/Linux distribution for Linux newbies.
The free and open source software projects he has contributed to are PiTiVi Video editor,
SLYNUX GNU/Linux distro, Swathantra Malayalam Computing, School-Admin, Istanbul,
and the Pardus Project. He has authored many articles for the Linux For You magazine
on various domains of FOSS technologies. He had made a contribution to several
different open source projects during his multiple Google Summer of Code projects.
He currently lives with his parents in Kerala. Sarath can be reached via his website
http://www.sarathlakshman.com.
I would like to thank my friends and family for the great support and
encouragement they have given me for all my endeavors. I would like
to thank my friends Anu Mahadevan and Neenu Jacob for the tireless
enthusiasm and patience to read through the chapter developments
and providing comments during development. I would also like to thank
Mr. Atanu Datta for helping me come up with the chapter titles. I extend
my gratitude to the team at Packt Publishing who helped me in making this
book happen.
