About the Author

Jonathan Hobson is a Web Developer, Systems Engineer, and Applications Programmer, who, for more than 20 years has been working behind the scenes to support companies, organizations, and individuals around the world to realize their digital ambitions. With an honors degree in both English and History and as a respected practitioner of many computer languages, Jonathan enjoys writing code, publishing articles, building computers, playing video games, and getting "out and about" in the big outdoors. He has been using CentOS since its inception and over the years, it has not only earned his trust, but it has become his first-choice server solution. CentOS is a first class community-based enterprise class operating system, it is a pleasure to work with, and because of this, Jonathan has written this book in order that his knowledge and experience can be passed on to others.