We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Linux From Scratch Project. Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Project Organization/Leadership. Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS General Package maintainer, LFS Book editor. Craig Colton <meerkats@bellsouth.net> -- LFS, ALFS, BLFS and Hints Project logo creator. Jeroen Coumans <jeroen@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Website developer, FAQ maintainer. Bruce Dubbs <bruce@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Quality Assurance Team Leader, BLFS Book editor. Alex Groenewoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Book editor. Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> -- CVS maintainer, BLFS Book Creator, former LFS Book editor. James Iwanek <iwanek@linuxfromscratch.org> -- System Administration team member. Nicholas Leippe <nicholas@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Wiki maintainer. Anderson Lizardo <lizardo@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Website backend scripts creator and maintainer. Bill Maltby <bill@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Project Organization/Leadership. Scot Mc Pherson <scot@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS NNTP gateway maintainer. Ryan Oliver <ryan@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Testing Team Leader, co- creator of PLFS. James Robertson <jwrober@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Bugzilla maintainer, Wiki developer, LFS Book editor. Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Toolchain Maintainer, LFS Book editor, co-creator of PLFS. Tushar Teredesai <tushar@linuxfromscratch.org> -- BLFS Book editor, Hints and Patches Projects maintainer. Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Book editor, Bugzilla maintainer. Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailinglists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports, instructions and their experiences with installing various packages. Manuel Canales Esparcia <macana@lfs-es.org> -- Spanish LFS translation project. Johan Lenglet <johan@linuxfromscratch.org> -- French LFS translation project. Anderson Lizardo <lizardo@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Portugese LFS translation project. Jason Andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> -- au.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. doc.cs.univ- paris8.fr <archive@doc.cs.univ-paris8.fr> -- www2.fr.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. William Astle <lost@l-w.net> -- ca.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Baque <baque@cict.fr> -- lfs.cict.fr mirror. Stephan Brendel <stevie@stevie20.de> -- lfs.netservice-neuss.de mirror. Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk> -- us.linuxfromscratch.org, linuxfromscratch.co.uk mirrors. Fredrik Danerklint <fredan-lfs@fredan.org> -- se.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. David D.W. Downey <pgpkeys@aeternamtech.com> -- lfs.learnbyexample.com mirror. Eduardo B. Fonseca <ebf@aedsolucoes.com.br> -- br.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Hagen Herrschaft <hrx@hrxnet.de> -- de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Tim Jackson <tim@idge.net> -- linuxfromscratch.idge.net mirror. Barna Koczka <barna@siker.hu> -- hu.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Roel Neefs -- linuxfromscratch.rave.org mirror. Simon Nicoll <sime@dot-sime.com> -- uk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Ervin S. Odisho <ervin@activalink.net> -- lfs.activalink.net mirror. Mikhail Pastukhov <miha@xuy.biz> -- lfs.130th.net mirror. Guido Passet <guido@primerelay.net> -- nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Jeremy Polen <jpolen@rackspace.com> -- us2.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. UK Mirror Service -- linuxfromscratch.mirror.co.uk mirror. Thomas Skyt <thomas@sofagang.dk> -- dk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Antonin Sprinzl <Antonin.Sprinzl@tuwien.ac.at> -- at.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Dag Stenstad <dag@stenstad.net> for providing no.linuxfromscratch.org and Ian Chilton for running it. Jesse Tie-Ten- Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for providing and running the linuxfromscratch.org server. Alexander Velin <velin@zadnik.org> -- bg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Martin Voss <Martin.Voss@ada.de> -- lfs.linux-matrix.net mirror. Pui Yong <pyng@spam.averse.net> -- sg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Dean Benson <dean@vipersoft.co.uk> for several monetary contributions. DREAMWVR.COM for their past sponsorship of donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects. Hagen Herrschaft <hrx@hrxnet.de> for donating a P4 2.2Ghz system. O'Reilly for donating books on SQL and PHP. VA Software who, on behalf of Linux.com, donated a VA Linux 420 (former StartX SP2) workstation. Mark Stone for donating shadowfax the linuxfromscratch.org server. Jesse Tie-Ten- Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for donating a Yamaha CDRW 8824E cd writer. Countless other people on the various LFS mailinglists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports. Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Book editor, Hints Project maintainer. Robert Briggs for originally donating the linuxfromscratch.org and linuxfromscratch.com domain names. Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk> for maintaining the Hints project Marc Heerdink <gimli@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Book editor. Seth W. Klein <sklein@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS FAQ Creator. Garrett LeSage <garrett@linuxart.com> -- Original LFS banner creator. Simon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca> -- Hints Project maintainer. Geert Poels <Geert.Poels@skynet.be> -- Original BLFS banner creator; based on the original LFS banner by Garrett LeSage. Frank Skettino <bkenoah@oswd.org> -- Initial design of the old website - OSWD. Jesse Tie-Ten- Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for answering countless questions on irc and having a great deal of patience.