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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
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.</para>

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<title>Editors</title>
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Editor:</emphasis> Larry Lawrence <ulink
url="mailto:&maintainer-address;">&lt;&maintainer-address;&gt;</ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Co-Editors:</emphasis> Bruce 
Dubbs, Mark Hymers, Billy O'Connor and Tushar Teredesai</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>Chapter 03: Creating a custom bootdisk <emphasis>Mike
Bedwell</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>Chapter 04: <!--<xref
linkend="ch06-firewall"/>-->Firewalling: <emphasis>Henning
Rohde with thanks to Jeff Bauman</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 26: XFree86 <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Chapter 28: Intro to Window Managers 
<emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Chapter 29: KDE: <emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Chapter 32: GNOME: <emphasis>Larry Lawrence</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

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

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

<listitem><para>AbiWord, at-spi, ATK, audiofile, avifile, bc, bonobo-activation, bug-buddy,
cdrdao, cdrtools, cpio, curl, dhcp, enlightenment, eog, esound,
fcron, fluxbox, FNLIB, 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,
gnome2-user-docs, gnumeric, GTK+2, gtk-doc, gtk-engines,
gtk-thinice-engine, eel, imlib, intltool,
lame, libao, libart_lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui, libgail-gnome,
libglade2, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui,
libgnomeui, libgtkhtml, libgtop, libIDL, libogg, librep, librsvg,
libvorbis, libwnck, libxml2, libxslt, linc, LPRng, Linux_PAM,
metacity, MPlayer, mutt, nautilus, nautilus-media, oaf, OpenJade, OpenSP, 
OpenSSH, ORBit, ORBit2, pan, Pango, pccts, 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>CDParanoia, mpg123, SDL and XMMS: <emphasis>Jeroen
Coumans</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>alsa, cvs, dhcpcd, gpm, hdparm, libjpeg, libmng, libpng, libtiff, libungif, links, lynx, openssl, tcsh, which, zsch, zlib: <emphasis>Mark Hymers</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>daemontools, traceroute and ucspi-tcp: <emphasis>Jeff
Bauman</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>aspell, balsa, bind, bonobo, bonobo-conf, cvs server,
db-3.3.11, db-3.1.17, emacs, evolution, exim, expat, gal, gnome-print, GnuCash,
gtkhtml, guppi, guile, guppi, g-wrap, leafnode, lesstif, libcapplet,
libesmtp, libfam, libghttp, libglade, pine, portmap, PostgreSQL,
pspell, qmail, qpopper, readline, reiserfs, Samba, sendmail, slib,
slrn, soup, tex, tcp-wrappers, and xinetd: <emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis></para></listitem>  

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

<listitem><para>fetchmail and wvdial: <emphasis>Paul
Campbell</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>tripwire : <emphasis>Manfred
Glombowski</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>alsa-oss, inetutils, gdk, GLib, GTK+, libxml and vim: <emphasis>James
Iwanek</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

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

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

<listitem><para>gcc, gcc2, j2sdk, mozilla, nas, openoffice and STLport: <emphasis>
Tushar Teredesai</emphasis></para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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

<itemizedlist>

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

<listitem><para><emphasis>Bruce Dubbs</emphasis> for writing the kde.txt
hint from which we gathered much useful information.</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 writing the
gpm2.txt hint on which our gpm instruction 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>J_Man</emphasis> for submitting a
gpm-1.19.3.diff file on which our gpm instructions are
based.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Scot Mc Pherson</emphasis> for writing the
gnome-1.4.txt hint from which was gathered useful information and for
warning us that Gnome2 was a toy.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis> for writing the
Compiling Java 2 SDK from Scratch hint on which j2sdk is
based and for writing the docbook hint used throughout the typesetting
chapter.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para><emphasis>DJ Lucas</emphasis> for contributing to dhcpcd
patch and many contributions while dhcp section was being
developed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis> for building gnome2
so many times (I thought my four was a lot) and being very helpful with
his comments on that section.</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>

<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>

</itemizedlist>
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