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\noindent UNIX is a trademark of X/Open. \\
Linux is not a trademark, and has no connection to
UNIX\tm\ or X/Open.\\
\noindent The X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute
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\noindent MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. \\
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Copyright \copyright \ 1992--1994 \ Matt Welsh\\
205 Gray Street NE, Wilson NC, 27893 USA\\
{\tt mdw@sunsite.unc.edu}

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{\em Linux Installation and Getting Started}
may be reproduced and distributed, in whole or in part, subject
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If you are distributing this book commercially, donations, royalties,
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Project.

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All source code in {\em Linux Installation and Getting Started}
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See Appendix~\ref{gnu-license} for a copy of the GNU ``GPL.''

