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  <title>Acknowledgments</title>

  <para>We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their
  contributions toward the BLFS and LFS projects:</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>All those people listed on the Credits page for submitting patches,
      instructions and corrections to the book.  The former editor would
      especially like to thank Bruce, Larry and Billy for their enormous inputs
      to the project.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Jeff Bauman (former co-editor of the book) for his assistance
      with getting BLFS off the ground.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:gerard@&lfs-domainname;">Gerard Beekmans</ulink>
      &lt;gerard &lt;at&gt; &lfs-domainname;&gt; for starting and writing the
      vast majority of the LFS project.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Robert Briggs for donating the &lfs-domainname; and
      linuxfromscratch.com domain names.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>DREAMWVR.COM for their sponsorship by donating various resources to
      the LFS and related sub projects.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Bruce Dubbs for donating the anduin package server and his
      substantial contribution to the purchase of the new quantum server.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:garrett@linux.com">Garrett LeSage</ulink>
      &lt;garrett &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for creating the LFS banner.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:bkenoah@oswd.org">Frank Skettino</ulink>
      &lt;bkenoah &lt;at&gt; oswd.org&gt; at <ulink
      url="http://www.oswd.org">OSWD</ulink> for coming up with the initial
      design of the LFS and BLFS websites.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:strider@linux.com">Mark Stone</ulink>
      &lt;mstone &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for donating the original
      &lfs-domainname; servers.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:highos@&lfs-domainname;">Jesse
      Tie-Ten-Quee</ulink> &lt;higho &lt;at&gt; &lfs-domainname;&gt; for
      answering many questions on IRC, having a great deal of patience and for
      not killing the former editor for the joke in the original BLFS
      announcement!</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailing lists
      who are making this book possible by giving their suggestions, testing
      the book and submitting bug reports.</para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

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