We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Linux From Scratch Project. Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> -- Linux-From-Scratch initiator, LFS Project organizer. 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 <bdubbs@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 organizer. 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 mailing lists 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> -- Portuguese LFS translation project. Jason Andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> -- au.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. Guido Passet <guido@primerelay.net> -- nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. Mikhail Pastukhov <miha@xuy.biz> -- lfs.130th.net 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. Parisian sysadmins <archive@doc.cs.univ-paris8.fr> -- www2.fr.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. 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 2.2 GHz P4 system, now running under the name of lorien. 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 first linuxfromscratch.org server, a 750 MHz P3 with 512 MB RAM and two 9 GB SCSI drives. When the server moved it was renamed to belgarath. Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for donating a Yamaha CDRW 8824E CD-writer. Countless other people on the various LFS mailing lists who are making this book better by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports, and throwing in their criticism. 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 LFS banner by Garrett LeSage. Frank Skettino <bkenoah@oswd.org> for the initial design of the old website -- have a look at . Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for answering countless questions on IRC and having a great deal of patience.