We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions toward the BLFS and LFS projects: Mark Stone <mstone@linux.com> for donating the linuxfromscratch.org servers. VA Linux Systems for providing rackspace and bandwidth for the linuxfromscratch.org server. Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> for starting and writing the vast majority of the LFS project. Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for answering many questions on irc, having a great deal of patience and for not killing the current editor for the joke in the original BLFS announcement! DREAMWVR.COM for their ongoing sponsorship by donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects. Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and linuxfromscratch.com domain names. Frank Skettino <bkenoah@oswd.org> at OSWD for coming up the initial design of the LFS and BLFS websites. Garrett LeSage <garrett@linux.com> for creating the LFS banner Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailinglists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports.