Jon Masters is a 25-year-old British-born Linux
kernel engineer, embedded systems specialist, and author who lives
and works in the United States for Red Hat. Jon made UK history by
becoming one of the youngest University students the country had
ever seen, at the tender age of just 13. Having been through
college twice by the time his peers were completing their first
time around, and having been published over 100 times in a wide
range of technical magazines, journals and books, Jon went on to
work for a variety of multinational technology companies. He has
worked extensively in the field of Embedded Systems, Enterprise
Linux and Scientific instrumentation and has helped design anything
and everything from Set Top Boxes to future NMR (MRI) imaging
platforms.
When not working on Enterprise Linux software for Red Hat, Jon
likes to drink tea on Boston Common and read the collective works
of Thomas Paine and other great American Revolutionaries of a
bygone age. He dreams of a time when the world was driven not by
electrons, but by wooden sailing ships and a universal struggle for
the birth of modern nations. He plays the violin, and occasionally
sings in choral ensembles, for which he has won several awards. For
relaxation, Jon enjoys engaging in a little rock climbing. He lives
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just across the river Charles from
historic Boston, and enjoys every minute of it.
Jon has extensive experience in speaking about and training people
to use a wide variety of Linux technologies and enjoys actively
participating in many Linux User Groups the world over.
Richard Blum has worked for over 18 years for a
large U.S. government organization as a network and systems
administrator. During this time he has had plenty of opportunities
to work with Microsoft, Novell, and of course, UNIX and Linux
servers. He has written applications and utilities using C, C++,
Java, C#, Visual Basic, and shell script.
Rich has a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering,
and a Masters of Science degree in Management, specializing in
Management Information Systems, from Purdue University. He is the
author of several books, including "sendmail for Linux"
(2000, Sams publishing), "Running qmail" (2000, Sams
publishing), "Postfix" (2001, Sams Publishing), "Open
Source E-mail Security" (2001, Sams Publishing), "C#
Network Programming" (2002, Sybex), "Network Performance
Open Source Toolkit" (2003, John Wiley & Sons), and
"Professional Assembly Language Programming" (2005,
Wrox).