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 man-pages-1.66 ncurses-5.4 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.