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  <title>Credits</title>

  <para>Many people have contributed both directly and indirectly to
  BLFS. This page lists all of those we can think of.  We may well have
  left people out and if you feel this is the case, drop us a line.  Many
  thanks to all of the LFS community for their assistance with
  this project.  If you are in the list and wish to have your email address
  included, again please drop us a line to &maintainer-address; and we'll
  be happy to add it.  We don't include email addresses by default so if
  you want it included, please state so when you contact us.</para>

  <sect2>
    <title>Editors</title>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Editor:</emphasis> Randy McMurchy <ulink
        url="mailto:&maintainer-address;">&lt;&maintainer-address;&gt;</ulink></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Co-Editors:</emphasis> Bruce Dubbs,
        Larry Lawrence, Igor Zivkovic, DJ Lucas, Tushar Teredesai,
        David Jensen, Archaic, Manuel Canales Esparcia, Dan Nicholson,
        Andy Benton and Alexander E. Patrakov.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
    <title>Text Authors</title>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 01.  Based on the LFS introductory text by
        <emphasis> Gerard Beekmans</emphasis>, modified by
        <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis> for BLFS.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 02: The /usr versus /usr/local debate:
        <emphasis>Andrew McMurry</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 02: Going beyond BLFS:
        <emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 02: Package Management:
        <emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 02: Automated Building Procedures:
        <emphasis>Randy McMurchy</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 02: Locale Related Issues:
        <emphasis>Alexander Patrakov</emphasis> and
        <emphasis>Randy McMurchy</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: /etc/inputrc:
        <emphasis>Chris Lynn</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: Customizing your logon &amp; vimrc:
        <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: /etc/shells:
        <emphasis>Igor Zivkovic</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: Random number script
        <emphasis>Larry Lawrence</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: Creating a Custom Boot Device
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: The Bash Shell Startup Files
        <emphasis>James Robertson</emphasis> revised by
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 03: Compressed docs
        <emphasis>Olivier Peres</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 04: Firewalling:
        <emphasis>Henning Rohde</emphasis> with thanks to
        <emphasis>Jeff Bauman</emphasis>. Revised by
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 11: Which
        <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis> with many thanks to
        <emphasis>Seth Klein</emphasis> and
        <emphasis>Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 25: X Window System Environment:
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapter 27: Intro to Window Managers:
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapters 28 and 29: KDE:
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Chapters 30, 31, and 32: GNOME:
        <emphasis>Larry Lawrence</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
    <title>Installation Instruction Authors</title>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>traceroute:
        <emphasis>Jeff Bauman</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>ProFTPD and rsync:
        <emphasis>Daniel Baumann</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>joe, nano, nmap, slang, w3m and whois:
        <emphasis>Timothy Bauscher</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Fetchmail and WvDial:
        <emphasis>Paul Campbell</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>CDParanoia, mpg123, SDL and XMMS:
        <emphasis>Jeroen Coumans</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>UDFtools, Perl modules (initial version) and Bluefish:
        <emphasis>Richard Downing</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>sudo, wireless_tools:
        <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

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        <para>courier:
        <emphasis>Jim Gifford</emphasis></para>
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      <listitem>
        <para>tripwire:
        <emphasis>Manfred Glombowski</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Dash and rxvt-unicode:
        <emphasis>Ag Hatzimanikas</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>alsa, cvs, dhcpcd, gpm, hdparm, libjpeg, libmng, libpng,
        libtiff, <!-- libungif, -->giflib, links, lynx, openssl, tcsh,
        which and zsh:
        <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>ALSA Firmware, ALSA OSS, inetutils, GLib, GTK+,
        libxml and vim:
        <emphasis>James Iwanek</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>db and lcms:
        <emphasis>Jeremy Jones</emphasis> and
        <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>aalib, Alsa, ffmpeg, MPlayer, transcode, xvid and xsane:
        <emphasis>Alex Kloss</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>ntp:
        <emphasis>Eric Konopka</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>AbiWord, at-spi, ATK, audiofile, avifile, bc, bonobo-activation,
        bug-buddy, cdrdao, cdrtools, cpio, curl, dhcp, eog, esound,
        fcron, fluxbox, gail, galeon, gconf-editor, gdbm, gedit, gimp, GLib2,
        gmp, gnet, gnome-applets, gnome-desktop, gnome-games, gnome-icon-theme,
        gnome-libs, gnome-media, gnome-mime-data, gnome-panel, gnome-session,
        gnome-system-monitor, gnome-terminal, gnome-themes, gnome-utils, gnome-vfs,
        gnome-user-docs, gnumeric, GTK+2, gtk-doc, gtk-engines,
        eel, imlib, intltool, lame, libao, libart_lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
        libgail-gnome, libglade2, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint,
        libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libgtkhtml, libgtop, libIDL, libogg,
        librep, librsvg, libvorbis, libwnck, libxml2, libxslt, LPRng, Linux-PAM,
        metacity, MIT Kerberos 5, MPlayer, mutt, nautilus, oaf, OpenJade,
        OpenSP, OpenSSH, ORBit, ORBit2, pan, Pango, pcre, pkgconfig, postfix,
        procmail, Python, QT, rep-gtk, ruby, sawfish, scrollkeeper, sgml-common,
        sgml-dtd, shadow, startup-notification, unzip, vorbis-tools, vte, wget, XFce,
        xine, xml-dtd, yelp and zip:
        <emphasis>Larry Lawrence</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Archive::Zip, cracklib, JDK-5, ksh, libdrm, libpcap, Mesa, 
        <!-- ncpfs, -->
        netfs, OpenOffice-2, pppd (update), RP-PPPoE, Samba-3, Subversion,
        Xorg-7 and xterm:
        <emphasis>DJ Lucas</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>ALSA Tools, Apache Ant, cairo, Cyrus-SASL, D-BUS,
        D-Bus Bindings, DejaGnu,
        desktop-file-utils, DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets, DocBook-utils,
        dvd+rw-tools, Evince, Evolution Data Server, Exim (many
        additions), Expect, FOP, FreeTTS, FriBidi, GC, GCC (rewrite), GMime,
        gnome-audio, gnome-backgrounds, gnome-menus, gnome-mount,
        gnome-screensaver, gnome-volume-manager, GNOME Doc Utils,
        GNOME Keyring Manager, GnuCash (version 2), GOffice, Graphviz,
        GStreamer Base Plug-ins, GStreamer Good Plug-ins, GStreamer Ugly
        Plug-ins, HAL, Heimdal, HTML Tidy, icon-naming-utils, ISO Codes,
        JadeTeX, Java Access Bridge, JUnit, K3b, LessTif (rewrite), libexif,
        libgail-gnome, libgnomecups, libgnomekbd, Libidn, libmpeg2,
        libmusicbrainz, libquicktime,
        MIT Kerberos V5 (many updates and enhancements), MPlayer
        (extensive overhaul), NSS, Other Programming Tools, PDL, Perl Modules,
        pilot-link, Poppler, PyXML, Samba 3 (many additions), SANE (original
        instructions by Alex Kloss), Shadow (rewrite), SLIB, Sound Juicer,
        Stunnel, Subversion Client (many additions), Sysstat,
        system-tools-backends, Totem, unixODBC, Wireshark and usbutils:
        <emphasis>Randy McMurchy</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>aspell, balsa, bind, bonobo, bonobo-conf, cvs server,
        emacs, evolution, exim, expat, gnome-print,
        GnuCash, gtkhtml, guppi, guile, g-wrap, leafnode, lesstif,
        libcapplet, libesmtp, libghttp, libglade, pine, portmap,
        PostgreSQL, qpopper, reiserfs, Samba, sendmail,
        slrn, soup, teTeX, tcp-wrappers, and xinetd:
        <emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Gimp-Print, libusb and TIN:
        <emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Screen:
        <emphasis>Andreas Pedersen</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>nfs-utils:
        <emphasis>Reinhard</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>ESP Ghostscript:
        <emphasis>Matt Rogers</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>iptables:
        <emphasis>Henning Rohde</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>fontconfig, gcc, jdk, mozilla, nas, openoffice, ispell,
        mailx, ImageMagick, hd2u, tcl, tk and bind-utils:
        <emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>MySQL:
        <emphasis>Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>PHP:
        <emphasis>Jeremy Utley</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Ekiga, Epiphany, FLAC, File Roller, GNOME Magnifier,
        GNOME Netstatus, GNOME Speech, GOK, Gnopernicus,
        Imlib2, LZO, MC, NASM, Nautilus CD Burner,
        Speex, XScreenSaver, Zenity, compface, freeglut, gcalctool, gucharmap,
        id3lib, kde-i18n, kdeaccessibility, kdebindings, kdesdk, kdevelop,
        kdewebdev, libFAME, liba52, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, libmad,
        libmikmod and libmpeg3:
        <emphasis>Igor Zivkovic</emphasis></para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
    <title>General Acknowledgments</title>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Fernando Arbeiza</emphasis>
        for doing great quality assurance on Shadow utilizing PAM.  The
        machine access he saved may have been yours.</para>
      </listitem>

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        <para><emphasis>Archaic</emphasis>
        for trouble shooting the mozilla section by performing multiple builds
        and for providing a description of the various mozilla extensions.</para>
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      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Miguel Bazdresch</emphasis>
        for many suggestions and contributions to the Other Programming Tools
        section.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Gerard Beekmans</emphasis>
        for generally putting up with us and for running the whole LFS
        project.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Oliver Brakmann</emphasis>
        for developing the dhcpcd patch for FHS compliance.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Ian Chilton</emphasis>
        for writing the nfs hint.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Nathan Coulson</emphasis>
        for writing the new network bootscripts.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Nathan Coulson</emphasis>,
        <emphasis>DJ Lucas</emphasis> and
        <emphasis>Zack Winkles</emphasis>
        for reworking the bootscripts used throughout the book.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Jim Harris</emphasis>
        for writing the dig-nslookup-host.txt hint on which the bind-utils
        instructions are based.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Lee Harris</emphasis>
        for writing the gpm.txt hint on which our gpm instructions
        are based.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Marc Heerdink</emphasis>
        for creating patches for tcp_wrappers and portmap and for writing
        the gpm2.txt hint on which our gpm instruction are based.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis>
        for initiating the BLFS project and writing many of the initial chapters
        of the book.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>J_Man</emphasis>
        for submitting a gpm-1.19.3.diff file on which our gpm instructions
        are based.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Jeremy Jones</emphasis>
        (otherwise known as <emphasis>mca</emphasis>)
        for hacking Makefiles and general assistance.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Steffen Knollmann</emphasis>
        for revising the JadeTeX instructions to work with teTex-3.0.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Eric Konopka</emphasis>
        for writing the ntp.txt hint on which the ntp section is based.</para>
      </listitem>

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        <para><emphasis>DJ Lucas</emphasis>
        for contributing to dhcpcd patch and many contributions while
        DHCP section was being developed and beyond.</para>
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        <para><emphasis>Randy McMurchy</emphasis>
        for writing the Heimdal hint and for proofreading the book from cover
        to cover for grammatical errors.</para>
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      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Scot McPherson</emphasis>
        for writing the gnome-1.4.txt hint from which was gathered useful information
        and for warning us that GNOME Version 2.0 may not be ready to put in the
        book.</para>
      </listitem>

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      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis>
        for building GNOME 2.0 so many times and being very helpful with
        his comments on that section.</para>
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      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis>
        for patches and suggestions to improve the book content, assistance
        with alsa dev.d helpers, and increasing the l10n awareness.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Ted Riley</emphasis>
        for writing the Linux-PAM + CrackLib + Shadow hint on which
        reinstalling Shadow to use PAM is based.</para>
      </listitem>

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        <para><emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis>
        for writing the Compiling Java 2 SDK from Scratch hint on which jdk is
        based and for writing the docbook hint used throughout the typesetting
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      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Jeremy Byron</emphasis> and
        <emphasis>David Ciecierski</emphasis> for assisting with, modifying,
        and testing various OpenOffice-2.0-pre builds and patches.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

  </sect2>

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