Many people have contributed both directly and indirectly to BLFS. This page lists all of those we can think of. We may well have missed people out and if you feel this is the case, drop us 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. Editor: Mark Hymers <&maintainer-address;> Co-Editors: Bruce Dubbs and Larry Lawrence Chapter 01. Based on the LFS introductory text by Gerard Beekmans, modified by Mark Hymers for BLFS. Chapter 02: The /usr versus /usr/local debate: Andrew McMurry. Chapter 03: /etc/inputrc: Chris Lynn. Chapter 03: Customising your logon & vimrc: Mark Hymers. Chapter 03: Random number script Larry Lawrence. Chapter 05: Which Mark Hymers with many thanks to Seth Klein and Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee. Chapter 06: Firewalling: Henning Rohde with thanks to Jeff Bauman. Chapter 10: XFree86 Bruce Dubbs. Chapter 11: Intro to Window Managers Bruce Dubbs. Chapter 12: GNOME: James Iwanek Chapter 13: QT: Larry Lawrence objprelink and KDE: Bruce Dubbs. Alsa: Alex Kloss ATK, audiofile, bc, cdrdao, cdrtools, curl, dhcp, fcron, fluxbox, imlib, GLib2, GTK+2, j2sdk, libao, libogg, libvorbis, libxml2, libxslt, mutt, OpenSSH, Pango, pccts, pcre, pkgconfig, postfix, procmail, Python, QT, ruby, unzip, vorbis-tools, wget, XFce and zip: Larry Lawrence CDParanoia, mpg123, SDL and XMMS: Jeroen Coumans cvs, gpm, hdparm, libjpeg, mng, png, tiff and ungif, links, lynx, openssl, which and zlib: Mark Hymers daemontools, traceroute and ucspi-tcp: Jeff Bauman db and lcms: Jeremy Jones and Mark Hymers emacs, pine and slrn: Billy O'Connor fetchmail and wvdial: Paul Campbell gdk, GLib, GTK+ and libxml: James Iwanek iptables: Henning Rohde joe, nano, nmap, slang, w3m and whois: Timothy Bauscher Gerard Beekmans for generally putting up with us and for running the whole LFS project. Bruce Dubbs for writing the kde.txt hint from which we gathered much useful information. Lee Harris for writing the gpm.txt hint on which our gpm instructions are based Marc Heerdink for writing the gpm2.txt hint on which our gpm instruction are based. Jeremy Jones (otherwise known as mca) for hacking Makefiles and general assistance. J_Man for submitting a gpm-1.19.3.diff file on which our gpm instructions are based. Scot Mc Pherson for writing the gnome-1.4.txt hint on which chapter 12 is closely based Tushar Teredesai for writing the Compiling Java 2 SDK from Scratch hint on which j2sdk is based.