Acknowledgments

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I am grateful to the following for their assistance during the development of this course guide:

• To my God who knows all. The everlasting foundation of knowledge and wisdom.
• The Commonwealth of Learningfor unrelenting support specifically mentioning Paul West - for believing in me, John Lesperance and Anthony Ming for review of material.
• Ms. Nodumo Dhlamini and Dr. Jason Githeko from RUFORUM and Egerton University respectively for review and critique.
• The Linux community and especially The Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa, the Free/Libre Open Source Software for Education, the WikiEducator community – especially Prof. Wayne Macintosh, the founding father of WikiEducator for believing in Open Educational Resources and Linux , The LinuxIT , The Linux Professional Institute -(LPI) and The Linux Documentation Project- (TLDP) not forgetting the developers of the Creative Commons License to which one of its licenses is used to copyleft this material.
• To my dear wife – Martha Mutua - for guaranteed, unshaken support and understanding. To which this manual is dedicated to.

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