1 | <sect1 id="preface-foreword">
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2 | <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html" dir="preface"?>
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3 | <title>Foreword</title>
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4 |
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5 | <para>Having helped out with LinuxFromScratch for a short time, I
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6 | noticed that we were getting many queries as to how to do things beyond
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7 | the base LFS system. At the time, the only assistance specifically
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8 | offered relating to LFS were the LFS hints (<ulink
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9 | url="&hints-root;">&hints-root;</ulink>). Most of the LFS hints are
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10 | extremely good and well written but I (and others) could still see a
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11 | need for more comprehensive help to go Beyond LFS - hence BLFS.</para>
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12 |
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13 | <para>BLFS aims to be more than the LFS-hints converted to XML although
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14 | much of our work is based around the hints and indeed some authors write
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15 | both hints and the relevant BLFS sections. We hope that we can provide
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16 | you with enough information to not only manage to build your system up
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17 | to what you want, whether it be a web server or a multimedia desktop
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18 | system, but also that you will learn a lot about system configuration as
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19 | you go.</para>
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20 |
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21 | <para>Thanks as ever go to everyone in the LFS/BLFS community especially
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22 | those who have contributed instructions, written text, answered
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23 | questions and generally shouted when things were wrong!</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para>Finally, we encourage you to become involved in the community;
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26 | ask questions on the mailing list or
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27 | news gateway and join in the fun on #lfs at irc.linuxfromscratch.org.
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28 | You can find more details about all of these in the <xref linkend="introduction"/> section of the book.</para>
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29 |
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30 | <para>Enjoy using BLFS.</para>
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31 |
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32 | <para>Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>
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33 | BLFS Editor (July 2001 - March 2003)</para>
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35 | </sect1>
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36 |
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