This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book, first a summary, then a detailed log. Upgraded to: less-382 lfs-utils-0.5 linux-2.4.25 man-pages-1.66 ncurses-5.4 procps-3.2.0 Added: make_devices-1.2 Removed: MAKEDEV-1.7 ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch March 21st, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Grub - Removed the sed used with grub-0.93 for gcc 3.3 compliance, as it's not necessary with 0.94 March 9th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Removed --login from the chroot commands. March 6th, 2004 [alex]: Rotated the contents of chapters 2, 3 and 4. February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to Procps-3.2.0. February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to Lfs-utils-0.5 - fixes a possible symlink attack in iana-get. February 27th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Altered the instructions for Findutils to be FHS-compliant. February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Removed the creation of the /usr/etc directory to conform with FHS - closes bug 775. February 26th, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to Linux-2.4.25. February 23rd, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 6 + 9 - Cleaned up the Revision of chroot and Reboot sections. February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Moved the stripping of the final system from chapter 9 to the end of chapter 6. February 22nd, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils and E2fsprogs: Clarified the prerequisites for running the tests. February 19th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Stripping: Removed an unnecessary "{,share/}" from the documentation's rm command. February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded to Less-382. February 14th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Upgraded to Ncurses-5.4, and removed references to the etip patch. February 12th, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed explicit paths from the pwconv and grpconv commands, since /usr/sbin is part of the default path. February 9th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Moved the Bootscripts installation section to chapter 7. February 8th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated to Man-pages-1.66. February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 1 - Moved the Conventions and Acknowledgements sections to the Preface. February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Creating devices: replaced the MAKEDEV script with the make_devices script. Contributed by Matthias Benkmann. February 5th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Simplified the final install of the kernel headers to just copying them from the temporary tools directory. February 4th, 2004 [alex]: Chapters 5 + 6 - Moved the Mounting of proc and devpts to before Chrooting, dropped Util-linux from the tools, and added a little arch script for Perl. Release of version 5.1-pre1 on February 1st, 2004.