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<title>Acknowledgments</title>

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

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<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><ulink url="mailto:strider@linux.com">Mark Stone</ulink> 
&lt;mstone &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for donating the linuxfromscratch.org 
servers.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para><ulink url="mailto:gerard@linuxfromscratch.org">Gerard
Beekmans</ulink> &lt;gerard &lt;at&gt; linuxfromscratch.org&gt; for starting and
writing the vast majority of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> project.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="mailto:highos@linuxfromscratch.org">Jesse
Tie-Ten-Quee</ulink> &lt;higho &lt;at&gt; @linuxfromscratch.org&gt; for answering
many questions on <acronym>IRC</acronym>, having a great deal of patience and 
for not killing the former editor for the joke in the original <acronym>BLFS
</acronym> announcement!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.dreamwvr.com/services">DREAMWVR.COM
</ulink> for their ongoing sponsorship by donating various resources to the
<acronym>LFS</acronym> and related sub projects.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and
linuxfromscratch.com domain names.</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 the initial design of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> and <acronym>BLFS
</acronym> websites.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><ulink url="mailto:garrett@linux.com">Garrett LeSage</ulink> 
&lt;garrett &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for creating the <acronym>LFS</acronym> banner</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Jeff Bauman (former co-editor of the book) for his assistance 
with getting <acronym>BLFS</acronym> off the ground.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Countless other people on the various <acronym>LFS</acronym> 
and <acronym>BLFS</acronym> mailing lists who are making this book happen by 
giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports.</para>
</listitem>

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