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	Matt Welsh
	• Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the intersection of next-generation Internet systems and high-performance computing. • Original coordinator of the Linux Documentation Project; long-time Linux advocate and developer. • An O'Reilly author of Running Linux.

Interview With Matt Welsh

by Dale Dougherty
02/25/2000

Dale Dougherty, publisher of the O'Reilly Network, interviewed Matt Welsh, one of the founders of the Linux Documentation Project and an O'Reilly author of Running Linux. Dale talked to Matt about the project and current work he's doing with Java under Linux.

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Topics discussed in this interview

• Getting started with Linux
• The beginnings of the Linux Documentation Project
• Building the tools for producing documentation
• How the project evolved and became a model for organizing information
• Current area of research: Java, Linux and high-performance computing