This book was created using free/open source software. All media within was created and saved in formats unencumbered by patents.
The standard typeface used in this book is Source Sans Pro [63] , the monospaced sequences use Source Code Pro. [64] Both of these beautiful fonts families were designed by Paul D. Hunt [65] at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Moreover, both of these families are available for use under the Open Font License version 1.1 [66] .
This book was written in 100% lint-free DocBook 5 XML [67] .
Composition of this book took place entirely in
Emacs (nXML/RNG mode if you're
curious), on an assortment of Fedora
Linux
releases.
The single-page HTML version of this book[68] uses the Twitter Bootstrap [69] stylesheet.
This book was produced using a GNU Make → xsltproc → dblatex → xetex → xdvipdfmx toolchain.
[63] Source Sans Pro Announcement (2012-08-02): http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html
[64] Source Code Pro Announcement (2012-09-24): http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html
[65] Paul D. Hunt on Adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/products/type/font-designers/paul-hunt.html
[66] SIL Open Font License: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
[67] DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide: http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html
[68] Single-page HTML version of the Virtual Disk Guide: http://lnx.cx/docs/vdg/output/Virtual-Disk-Operations.html
[69] Twitter Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/