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  <title>Organization</title>

  <para>
    This book is divided into the following fourteen parts.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part I - Introduction</bridgehead>

  <para>
    This part contains essential information which is needed to
    understand the rest of the book.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part II - Post LFS Configuration and Extra
  Software</bridgehead>

  <para>
    Here we introduce basic configuration and security issues.  We also
    discuss a range of text editors, file systems, and shells which aren't covered
    in the main LFS book.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part III - General Libraries and Utilities</bridgehead>

  <para>
    In this section we cover libraries which are often needed throughout
    the book, as well as system utilities.  Information on programming
    (including recompiling <application>GCC</application> to support its full
    range of languages) concludes this part.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part IV - Basic Networking</bridgehead>

  <para>
    Here we explain how to connect to a network when you aren't using the
    simple static IP setup presented in the main LFS book. Networking libraries
    and command-line networking tools are also covered here.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part V - Servers</bridgehead>

  <para>
    Here we show you how to set up mail and other servers (such as
    <application>FTP</application>, <application>Apache</application>, etc.).
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VI - X + Window Managers</bridgehead>

  <para>
    This part explains how to set up a basic <application>X Window
    System</application>, along with some generic
    <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VII - KDE</bridgehead>

  <para>
    This part is for those who want to use the <application>K Desktop
    Environment</application>, or parts of it.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VIII - GNOME</bridgehead>

  <para>
    <application>GNOME</application> is the main alternative to
    <application>KDE</application> in the Desktop Environment arena.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part IX - Xfce</bridgehead>

  <para>
    <application>Xfce</application> is a lightweight alternative to
    <application>GNOME</application> and <application>KDE</application>.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part X - LXDE</bridgehead>

  <para>
    <application>LXDE</application> is another lightweight alternative to
    <application>GNOME</application> and <application>KDE</application>.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XI - More X Software</bridgehead>

  <para>
    Office programs and graphical web browsers are important to most people.
    They, and some generic <application>X</application> software, can be
    found in this part of the book.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XII - Multimedia</bridgehead>

  <para>
    Here we cover multimedia libraries and drivers, along with some
    audio, video, and CD-writing programs.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and
  Typesetting (PST)</bridgehead>

  <para>
    This part covers document handling, from applications like
    <application>Ghostscript</application>, <application>CUPS</application>, and
    <application>DocBook</application>, all the way to
    <application>texlive</application>.
  </para>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Appendices</bridgehead>

  <para>
    The Appendices present information which doesn't belong in the body of
    book; they are included as reference material. The glossary of acronyms
    is a handy feature.
  </para>

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