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<appendix id="credits" xreflabel="Credits">
  <title>Credits</title>

  <authorblurb>
    <para>By <ulink url="mailto:vinod@kurup.com">Vinod Kurup</ulink></para>
  </authorblurb>

  <para><ulink url="mailto:vinod@kurup.com">Vinod Kurup</ulink> put
	together the January 2002 version of this guide from many sources of
	information.</para>

  <para><ulink url="mailto:joel@aufrecht.org">Joel Aufrecht</ulink>
	updated the document starting in March 2003.</para>

  <itemizedlist>

	<listitem><para>
		<ulink url="http://openacs.org/doc/openacs/install/">OpenACS 3.x Installation Guide</ulink>
	  </para></listitem>

	  <listitem><para> 
		  <ulink url="http://www.orchardlabs.com/freebsd/">Gilbert Wong's FreeBSD
		  installation guide</ulink>
		</para></listitem> 

	  <listitem><para> 
		  <ulink url="http://www.kurup.com/acs/openacs-4.html">My own Brief OpenACS4
		  installation guide</ulink>
		</para></listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>
	Acknowledgments for versions of the above documents go (in no
	particular order) to Bryan Quinn, Adam Farkas, Brian Stein, Doug
	Hoffman, Ravi Jasuja, Hiro Iwashima, Ryan Lee, Jonathan Goler, Audrey
	Mcloghlin, Doug Harris, Zvi Boshernitzan, Michael Yoon, Cesar Brea,
	Dennis Gregorovic, David Fullagar, Chris Spears, Kevin Tupper, Michael
	Duffy, Simon Carstensen, Dave Bauer, Tracy Adams, Greg Haverkamp,
	Philip Greenspun, Jin Choi, Sean Yamamoto, David Cohen, Chris Rasch,
	Richard Li, Jon Griffin, Roberto Mello, Gilbert Wong, Don Baccus, Ben
	Adida, Michael Cleverly, Janne Blonqvist, Jonathan Ellis, Janine Sisk,
	Jade Rubick, Chris Hardy, Jonathan Marsden, Vinod Kurup, Charles Hall,
	Tom Jackson and Karl Lehenbauer.</para>

  <para>
	Several people have helped with this document, including Torben
	Brosten, Don Baccus, Roberto Mello, Talli Somekh, Dave Bauer, Jim
	Lynch, Jon Griffin, Daryl Biberdorf, Bjorn Thor Jonsson, Jade Rubick,
	Fred Yankowski, Dan Chak, Sebastiano Pilla, Reuven Lerner, Malte
	Sussdorff, Stan Kaufman and Pascal Scheffers.
  </para>

  <para>
    <emphasis role="strong">All questions and comments</emphasis> regarding
    this guide should be posted on the <ulink
    url="http://openacs.org/forums/">OpenACS forums</ulink>.
  </para>

  <para><phrase role="cvstag">($Id: credits.xml,v 1.12 2006/07/17 05:38:37 torbenb Exp $)</phrase></para>

    <section id="install-origins" xreflabel="Where did this document come from?">
    <title>Where did this document come from?</title>
    <para>
      This document was created by <ulink
      url="mailto:vinod@kurup.com">Vinod Kurup</ulink>, but it's really
      just plagiarism from a number of documents that came before it. If
      I've used something that you've written without proper credit, let me
      know and I'll fix it right away.
    </para>
    <para>Versions 4.6.2 to present were edited by <ulink
    url="mailto:joel@aufrecht.org">Joel Aufrecht</ulink>.
</para>
    
    <para>These are a few of my sources:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem><para> 
          ArsDigita installation guide
        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para>
          OpenACS 3.x installation guide
        </para></listitem> 

      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink url="http://www.orchardlabs.com/">Gilbert Wong's FreeBSD
          installation guide</ulink>
        </para></listitem> 

      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink url="http://kurup.com/acs/openacs-4.html">Vinod Kurup's Brief OpenACS4
          installation guide</ulink>
        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink
          url="http://www.aufrecht.org/openacs-4.5-quick-guide/">Joel
          Aufrecht's OpenACS 4.5 Quick Guide.</ulink>
        </para></listitem> 

    </itemizedlist>
    <para>
      Please also see the <xref linkend="credits"/> section for more acknowledgements.
    </para>
    </section>

    <section id="os-install" xreflabel="Linux Install Guides">
    <title>Linux Install Guides</title>
    <para>
      Here's a list of some helpful documentation for various OS's
    </para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem><para>
          <ulink url="http://tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian/">Painless Debian
          GNU/Linux</ulink> by Stephen van Egmond
        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para> 

          <ulink
          url="http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual">Official
          Debian Guide</ulink> 

        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para>

          <ulink
          url="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/">RedHat</ulink>

        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para>

          <ulink
          url="http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3">Mandrake</ulink>

        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para>

          <ulink url="http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/">SuSE</ulink>

        </para></listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
    </section>

  <section id="os-security" xreflabel="Security Information">
    <title>Security Information</title>
    <para>
      Once you get your OS installed, it's imperative that you secure your
      installation. As Jon Griffin repeatedly warns us, "No distribution is
      secure out of the box."  The Reference Platform implements
      some basic precautions, but security is a process, not a
      condition.  If you are responsible for a computer hooked to the
      internet, you are responsible for learning some rudiments of
      security, such as monitoring the state of a computer,
      maintaining patch levels, and keeping backups.  We recommend
      these resources:
    </para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <ulink url="http://www.openna.com/products/books/sol/solus.php">Securing and Optimizing Linux - version 2.0</ulink>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink url="http://jongriffin.com/static/linuxnotes">Jon
          Griffin's notes</ulink>
          </para></listitem>
      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink url="http://www.seifried.org/lasg/">Linux Administrators
          Security Guide</ulink>
          </para></listitem>
      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink
            url="http://www.suse.com/en/support/howto/secure_webserv/index.html">Installation
            of a Secure Webserver</ulink>
        </para></listitem>

      <listitem><para> 
          <ulink
            url="http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html">Bruce
          Schneier's Crypto-Gram</ulink>, especially <ulink
          url="http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0103.html#1">The
          security patch treadmill</ulink> and <ulink
          url="http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0107.html#5">Monitoring First</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
    </section>

  <section id="install-resources" xreflabel="Resources">
    <title>Resources</title>

    <para>
      Here are some resources that OpenACS users have found useful.
    </para>

      <section id="install-resources-books">
      <title>Books</title>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>

            <ulink
            url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558605347/photonetA">Philip
            and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing</ulink> - A very readable
            guide to database-backed community websites.

          </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>

            <ulink
              url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565922603/photonetA/">UNIX
              Power Tools</ulink> - An excellent introduction to the
              command line tools and basic programs of UNIX

          </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para>

            <ulink
            url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130206016/photonetA">UNIX
            System Administration Handbook</ulink> (formerly the "red book"
            - now the "purple" book)

          </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para> 

            <ulink
            url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076453162X/photonetA">UNIX
            System Administrator's Bible</ulink> -  (LePage and Iarerra 1998;
            IDG) 

          </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para> 

            <ulink
            url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565921518/photonetA">Running
            Linux</ulink> </para></listitem>
      
      <listitem><para> <ulink
            url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565921526/photonetA">Learning
            Gnu Emacs</ulink> </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para> 

            <ulink
              url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565925858/photonetA">Linux
              in a Nutshell</ulink> 

          </para></listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

    <section id="install-resources-web">
      <title>Web Sites</title>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>

            <ulink url="http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html">The UNIX
              Reference Desk</ulink>

          </para></listitem>

        <listitem><para> 

            <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">The Linux Documentation
            Project</ulink> 

          </para></listitem> 

        <listitem><para>

            <ulink
            url="http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/4AAA4E689F774DBC86256B4500645075?OpenDocument">LPI
            certification exam preps</ulink> - A series of articles from
            IBM developerworks on basic and intermediate Linux skills
            (requires registration)

            </para></listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

        </section>
      </section>
    </section>
  </appendix>

