F.3. Acknowledgments

The first edition of this HOWTO was written by Mark Komarinski. It was based upon /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt, which was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg.

The second edition of this HOWTO was written by the staff of the Australian Academic and Research Network, mainly Glen Turner and David Vu.

The following people have contributed to this HOWTO. They are listed in no particular order.

LinuxSA mailing list

Proof reading of the Second Edition. LinuxSA is a Linux user group based in South Australia.

David Lawyer

Technical review of the Second Edition and recommending the updated HOWTO to the Linux Documentation Project. David is author of the Text-Terminal-HOWTO.

Devin Reade

Xyplex terminal server information. Devin maintains information about Xyplex terminal servers at http://www.gno.org/~gdr/xyplex/.

Michael Brown, Marc Mondragon and other members of the Linux on Dell PowerEdge mailing list

Technically described how the BIOS redirects characters to the serial port. The Linux on Dell PowerEdge list can be subscribed to by sending a message containing subscribe linux-poweredge to .

Thomas Lunde

For noticing errors of grammar and typography.