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  <title>Organization</title>

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

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

  <para>This part contains information which is essential to
  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 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 by the rest
  of 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 cover how to connect to a network when you aren't using the
  simple static IP setup given 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 deal with setting up mail and other servers (such as
  <application>SSH</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> installation along with some generic
  <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.</para>

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

  <para>For those who want to use the <application>K Desktop
  Environment</application> or some parts of it, this part covers 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 - X Software</bridgehead>

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

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

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

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

  <para>The PST part of the book covers document handling with applications like
  <application>Ghostscript</application>, <application>CUPS</application> and
  <application>DocBook</application> to installing
  <application>texlive</application>.</para>

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

  <para>The Appendices cover information which doesn't belong in the main
  book; they are mainly there as a reference.</para>

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