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<chapter id="intro">
  <title>Introduction to Netatalk</title>

  <para>Netatalk is an OpenSource software package, that can be used to turn
  a *NIX machine into an extremely high-performance and
  reliable file server for Macintosh computers.</para>

  <para>Using Netatalk's AFP 3.3 compliant file-server leads to significantly
  higher transmission speeds compared with Macs accessing a server via
  SaMBa/NFS while providing clients with the best possible user experience
  (full support for Macintosh metadata, flawlessly supporting mixed
  environments of classic Mac OS and OS X clients)</para>

</chapter>
