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<title>Credits</title>

<para>Many people have contributed both directly and indirectly to <acronym>
BLFS</acronym>. 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 line.  Many
thanks to all of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> 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> 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, Tushar Teredesai and Igor Zivkovic.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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

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

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

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

<listitem><para>Chapter 02: Package Management: <emphasis>
Tushar Teredesai</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 Boot Disk <emphasis>Mike
Bedwell</emphasis> and expanded by <emphasis>Bill Maltby</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>

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

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

<listitem><para>Chapter 04: 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>
</sect2>

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

<listitem><para>aalib, Alsa, ffmpeg, gocr, 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, libgsf, 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>traceroute: <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, qpopper, readline, reiserfs, Samba, sendmail, slib,
slrn, soup, tex, tcp-wrappers, and xinetd: <emphasis>Billy O'Connor</emphasis>
</para></listitem>  

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

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

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

<listitem><para>Gimp-Print: <emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

<listitem><para>udftools, perl modules: <emphasis>Richard Downing</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>compface, DirectFB, FLAC, id3lib, Imlib2, liba52, libdv,
libdvdcss, libdvdread, libFAME, libmad, libmikmod, libmpeg3, LZO, MC, NASM,
OpenQuicktime, Speex and SVGAlib: <emphasis>Igor Zivkovic</emphasis></para>
</listitem>

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

<listitem><para>ALSA Firmware, 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>fontconfig, gcc, gcc2, j2sdk, mozilla, nas, openoffice, ispell, nail,
ImageMagick, hd2u,
STLport, tcl, tk and bind-utils: <emphasis>Tushar Teredesai</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>cracklib, libpcap, ncpfs, netfs, ppp(update) and RP-PPPoE: <emphasis>DJ Lucas</emphasis></para></listitem>

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

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

<listitem><para>courier: <emphasis>Jim Gifford</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 <acronym>LFS</acronym> 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 GNOME Version 2.0 may not be ready to put in the book.</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 <acronym>FHS</acronym> compliance.</para></listitem>

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

<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></listitem>

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

<listitem><para><emphasis>Fernando Arbeiza</emphasis> for doing great
quality assurance on Shadow utilizing <acronym>PAM</acronym>.  The machine 
access he saved may have been yours.</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>Eric Konopka</emphasis> for writing the 
ntp.txt hint on which the ntp section is based.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para><emphasis>Marc Heerdink</emphasis> for creating patches
for tcp_wrappers and portmap.</para></listitem>

<listitem><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></listitem>

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

<listitem><para><emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis> for patches and
suggestions to improve the book content and increasing the <acronym>l10n</acronym>
awareness.</para></listitem>

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

</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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