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\begin{document}
\title{A \linux\ \cdrom\ standard}
\author{David van Leeuwen\\{\normalsize\tt david@ElseWare.cistron.nl}
\\{\footnotesize updated by Erik Andersen {\tt(andersee@debian.org)}}
\\{\footnotesize updated by Jens Axboe {\tt(axboe@image.dk)}}}
\date{12 March 1999}
\maketitle
\newsection{Introduction}
\linux\ is probably the Unix-like operating system that supports
the widest variety of hardware devices. The reasons for this are
presumably
\begin{itemize}
\item
The large list of hardware devices available for the many platforms
that \linux\ now supports (\ie, i386-PCs, Sparc Suns, etc.)
