1 | <sect1 id="preface-organization">
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2 | <?dbhtml filename="organization.html" dir="preface"?>
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3 | <title>Organization</title>
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4 |
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5 | <para>This book is divided into the following parts.</para>
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6 |
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7 | <sect2><title>Part I - Introduction</title>
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8 | <para>This part contains information which is essential to
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9 | the rest of the book.</para></sect2>
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10 |
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11 | <sect2><title>Part II - Post LFS Configuration and Extra Software</title>
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12 | <para>Here we introduce basic configuration and security issues. We also
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13 | discuss a range of editors, filesystems and shells which aren't covered in
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14 | the main <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2>
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15 |
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16 | <sect2><title>Part III - General Libraries and Utilities</title>
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17 | <para>In this section we cover libraries which are often needed by the rest
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18 | of the book as well as system utilities. Information on Programming
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19 | (including recompiling <application>gcc</application> to support its full range of languages) concludes
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20 | this part.</para></sect2>
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21 |
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22 | <sect2><title>Part IV - Connecting to a Network</title>
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23 | <para>Here we cover how to connect to a network when you aren't using
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24 | the simple static <acronym>IP</acronym> setup given in the main
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25 | <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2>
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26 |
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27 | <sect2><title>Part V - Basic Networking</title>
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28 | <para>Networking libraries and command line networking tools make up the
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29 | bulk of this part.</para></sect2>
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30 |
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31 | <sect2><title>Part VI - Server Networking</title>
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32 | <para>Here we deal with setting up mail and other servers (such as
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33 | <application>SSH</application>,
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34 | <application>CVS</application>, etc.).</para></sect2>
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35 |
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36 | <sect2><title>Part VII - Content Serving</title>
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37 | <para>In this part we deal with databases and web server software
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38 | <!--(including php)-->.</para></sect2>
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39 |
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40 | <sect2><title>Part VIII - X + Window Managers</title>
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41 | <para>This part explains how to set up a basic
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42 | <application>XFree86</application> installation along
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43 | with some generic <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.</para></sect2>
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44 |
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45 | <sect2><title>Part IX - KDE</title>
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46 | <para>For those who want to use the K Desktop Environment or some parts of
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47 | it, this part covers it.</para></sect2>
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48 |
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49 | <sect2><title>Part X - GNOME</title>
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50 | <para><application>GNOME</application> is the main alternative to <application>KDE</application> in the Desktop Environment arena
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51 | and we cover both gnome-1.4 and gnome-&gnome-version; here.</para></sect2>
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52 |
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53 | <sect2><title>Part XI - X Software</title>
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54 | <para>Office programs and graphical web browsers are important to most
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55 | people. They, along with some generic <application>X</application> software can be found in this part
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56 | of the book.</para></sect2>
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57 |
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58 | <sect2><title>Part XII - Multimedia</title>
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59 | <para>Here we cover setting multimedia libraries and drivers along with some
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60 | audio, video and CD-writing programs.</para></sect2>
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61 |
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62 | <sect2><title>Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and Typesetting</title>
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63 | <para>The <acronym>PST</acronym> part of the book covers things from
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64 | <application>ghostscript</application>, <application>CUPS</application>
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65 | and <application>DocBook</application>
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66 | to installing <application>TeX</application>.</para></sect2>
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67 |
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68 | <sect2><title>Appendices</title>
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69 | <para>The Appendices cover information which doesn't belong in the main
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70 | book; they are mainly there as a reference.</para></sect2>
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71 |
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72 | </sect1>
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