Conclusion & Acknowledgements

Conclusion

Though operating systems can be unwieldly beasts, some rational thought, time and a few good reference materials can get you a long way. It is perfectly possible to manage large networks of machines in only a few minutes a day, providing you put the ground work in.

Research and form policy, Read the Manual, and keep up to date.

Acknowledgements

Firstly, we must thank HEAnet and our co-workers for allowing us to implement the policies contained within this document.

We must acknowledge The New York Public Library, who have done an immense amount of research into web readability and usability and upon whose stylesheet (from their excellent styleguide) we based the style for this document.

We would like to thank the Debian Developers for making such an excellent operating system which saves us literally hundreds of man-hours per-month.

Thanks must also go to Matt Domsch and the rest of the Linux team at Dell for working tirelessly to make Linux as usable as possible on Dell Poweredge. We would also like to thank the Dell engineer who came up with the idea of putting blue LEDs on PowerEdges.

We would like to thank Steve Traugott, Joel Huddleston, Joyce Cao Traugott for http://www.infrastructures.org/ and the excellent associated papers. Read this, now.

And of course, Christine Hogan and Thomas A. Limoncelli, who put in words what has so often made so much sense, but been hard to cite and reference. Give these people your money. Buy the book, you won't regret it.