Acknowledgements

Firstly, I have to thank an old college buddy of mine who introduced me to Linux many years ago and set me down this path of developing a passion for Linux and open-source. Ben, if you’re reading this, cheers.

I’d also like to thank the following authors who’s self-published free online textbooks both helped me acquire the skills that got me to where I am today, and also served as inspiration for self-publishing a forever freely available online manuscript.

• The Linux Command Line by William Schotts
• Think Python and Think Stats by Allen Downy
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart
• Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling