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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> Mark
Hymers <ulink
url="mailto:&maintainer-address;">&lt;&maintainer-address;&gt;</ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Co-Editors:</emphasis> Bruce 
Dubbs and Larry Lawrence</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 03: /etc/inputrc: <emphasis>Chris
Lynn</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Chapter 03: Customising 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 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>Alsa: <emphasis>Alex Kloss</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>ATK, audiofile, bc, bonobo-activation, bug-buddy,
cdrdao, cdrtools, cpio, curl, dhcp, DocBook, enlightenment, eog, esound,
fcron, fluxbox, FNLIB, gail, gcc, gdbm, gedit, GLib2, gmp, gnat, gnome-applets, gnome-common, gnome-desktop, gnome-games, gnome-libs, gnome-mime-data, gnome-panel,
gnome-session, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-terminal, gnome-utils, gnome-vfs, GTK+2, gtk-doc, gtk-engines, eel, imlib, intltool, j2sdk, lame, libao, libart_lgpl,
libbonobo, libbonoboui, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgtkhtml, libgtop, libIDL,
libogg, librep, librsvg, libvorbis, libwnck, libxml2, libxslt, libzvt,
linc, mutt, nautilus, OpenSSH, ORBit, ORBit2, Pango, pccts, pcre,
pkgconfig, postfix, procmail, Python, QT, rep-gtk, ruby, sawfish,
scrollkeeper, unzip, vorbis-tools, wget, XFce, yelp and zip: <emphasis>Larry Lawrence</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>cvs, gpm, hdparm, libjpeg, mng, png, tiff and ungif,
links, lynx, openssl, which and 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>bind, cvs server, emacs, exim, leafnode, lesstif, libfam, pine,
qmail, qpopper, portmap, PostgreSQL, Samba, sendmail, slrn, tex,
tcp-wrappers and xinetd: <emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>gdk, GLib, GTK+ and libxml: <emphasis>James
Iwanek</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para><!--<xref linkend="iptables"/>-->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>openoffice: <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.</para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para><emphasis>Oliver Brackmann</emphasis> for developing the
dhcpcd patch for FHS complience.</para></listitem>

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