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radd4a24 r4122007 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE preface PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" 3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ 4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> 5 %general-entities; 6 ]> 7 1 8 <preface id="preface"> 2 9 <?dbhtml filename="preface.html" dir="preface"?> 3 10 <title>Preface</title> 4 11 5 &preface-foreword; 6 &preface-whoread; 7 &preface-organization; 12 <sect1 id="preface-foreword"> 13 <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html"?> 14 <title>Foreword</title> 15 16 <para>Having helped out with Linux From Scratch for a short time, I 17 noticed that we were getting many queries as to how to do things beyond 18 the base <acronym>LFS</acronym> system. At the time, the only assistance 19 specifically offered relating to <acronym>LFS</acronym> were the 20 <acronym>LFS</acronym> hints (<ulink url="&hints-root;">&hints-root;</ulink>). 21 Most of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> hints are extremely good and well written 22 but I (and others) could still see a need for more comprehensive help to 23 go Beyond <acronym>LFS</acronym> - hence <acronym>BLFS</acronym>.</para> 24 25 <para><acronym>BLFS</acronym> aims to be more than the 26 <acronym>LFS</acronym>-hints converted to <acronym>XML</acronym> although 27 much of our work is based around the hints and indeed some authors write 28 both hints and the relevant <acronym>BLFS</acronym> sections. We hope that 29 we can provide you with enough information to not only manage to build your 30 system up to what you want, whether it be a web server or a multimedia desktop 31 system, but also that you will learn a lot about system configuration as 32 you go.</para> 33 34 <para>Thanks as ever go to everyone in the <acronym>LFS</acronym>/<acronym>BLFS</acronym> 35 community; especially those who have contributed instructions, written text, 36 answered questions and generally shouted when things were wrong!</para> 37 38 <para>Finally, we encourage you to become involved in the community; ask 39 questions on the mailing list or news gateway and join in the fun on #lfs at 40 irc.linuxfromscratch.org. You can find more details about all of these in the 41 <xref linkend="introduction"/> section of the book.</para> 42 43 <para>Enjoy using <acronym>BLFS</acronym>.</para> 44 45 <blockquote><literallayout>Mark Hymers 46 markh <at> linuxfromscratch.org 47 BLFS Editor (July 2001 - March 2003)</literallayout></blockquote> 48 49 <para>I still remember how I found the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> project 50 and started using the instructions that were completed at the time. I could 51 not believe how wonderful it was to get an application up and running very 52 quickly, with explanations as to why things were done a certain way. 53 Unfortunately, for me, it wasn't long before I was opening applications that 54 had nothing more than "To be done" on the page. I did what most would do, 55 I waited for someone else to do it. It wasn't too long before I am looking 56 through <application>Bugzilla</application> for something easy to do. 57 As with any learning experience, the definition of what was easy kept 58 changing.</para> 59 60 <para>We still encourage you to become involved as <acronym>BLFS</acronym> is 61 never really finished. Contributing or just using, we hope you enjoy 62 your <acronym>BLFS</acronym> experience.</para> 63 64 <blockquote><literallayout>Larry Lawrence 65 larry <at> linuxfromscratch.org 66 BLFS Editor (March 2003 - present)</literallayout></blockquote> 67 68 </sect1> 69 70 <sect1 id="preface-whoread"> 71 <?dbhtml filename="whoread.html"?> 72 <title>Who would want to read this book</title> 73 74 <para>This book is mainly aimed at those who have built a system based 75 on the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book. It will also be useful for those who are 76 using other distributions, but for one reason or another want to manually build 77 software and are in need of some assistance. <acronym>BLFS</acronym> can be 78 used to create a range of diverse systems and so the target audience is 79 probably nearly as wide as that of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book. If you 80 found <acronym>LFS</acronym> useful, you should also like this!</para> 81 82 <para>Since Release 5.0, the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> book version matches 83 the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book version. This book may be incompatible with 84 a previous or latter release of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para> 85 86 </sect1> 87 88 <sect1 id="preface-organization"> 89 <?dbhtml filename="organization.html"?> 90 <title>Organization</title> 91 92 <para>This book is divided into the following parts.</para> 93 94 <sect2><title>Part I - Introduction</title> 95 <para>This part contains information which is essential to 96 the rest of the book.</para></sect2> 97 98 <sect2><title>Part II - Post <acronym>LFS</acronym> Configuration and Extra 99 Software</title> 100 <para>Here we introduce basic configuration and security issues. We also 101 discuss a range of editors, file systems and shells which aren't covered in 102 the main <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2> 103 104 <sect2><title>Part III - General Libraries and Utilities</title> 105 <para>In this section we cover libraries which are often needed by the rest 106 of the book as well as system utilities. Information on Programming 107 (including recompiling <application>GCC</application> to support its full range 108 of languages) concludes this part.</para></sect2> 109 110 <sect2><title>Part IV - Connecting to a Network</title> 111 <para>Here we cover how to connect to a network when you aren't using 112 the simple static <acronym>IP</acronym> setup given in the main 113 <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2> 114 115 <sect2><title>Part V - Basic Networking</title> 116 <para>Networking libraries and command-line networking tools make up the 117 bulk of this part.</para></sect2> 118 119 <sect2><title>Part VI - Server Networking</title> 120 <para>Here we deal with setting up mail and other servers (such as 121 <application><acronym>SSH</acronym></application>, <application><acronym>CVS 122 </acronym></application>, etc.).</para></sect2> 123 124 <sect2><title>Part VII - Content Serving</title> 125 <para>In this part we deal with databases and web server software.</para></sect2> 126 127 <sect2><title>Part VIII - X + Window Managers</title> 128 <para>This part explains how to set up a basic 129 X Window System installation along 130 with some generic <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.</para></sect2> 131 132 <sect2><title>Part IX - KDE</title> 133 <para>For those who want to use the K Desktop Environment or some parts of 134 it, this part covers it.</para></sect2> 135 136 <sect2><title>Part X - GNOME</title> 137 <para>GNOME is the main alternative to KDE in the Desktop Environment arena and 138 we cover both GNOME-1.4 139 and GNOME-&gnome-version; here.</para></sect2> 140 141 <sect2><title>Part XI - X Software</title> 142 <para>Office programs and graphical web browsers are important to most people. 143 They, along with some generic <application>X</application> software can be 144 found in this part of the book.</para></sect2> 145 146 <sect2><title>Part XII - Multimedia</title> 147 <para>Here we cover setting multimedia libraries and drivers along with some 148 audio, video and <acronym>CD</acronym>-writing programs.</para></sect2> 149 150 <sect2><title>Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and Typesetting</title> 151 <para>The <acronym>PST</acronym> part of the book covers things from 152 <application>Ghostscript</application>, <application><acronym>CUPS</acronym> 153 </application> and <application>DocBook</application> 154 to installing <application>TeX</application>.</para></sect2> 155 156 <sect2><title>Appendices</title> 157 <para>The Appendices cover information which doesn't belong in the main 158 book; they are mainly there as a reference.</para></sect2> 159 160 </sect1> 8 161 9 162 </preface>
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