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r49e031f rdb78bbc 7 7 8 8 <preface id="preface"> 9 <?dbhtml filename="preface.html" dir="preface"?> 10 <title>Preface</title> 11 12 <sect1 id="preface-foreword"> 13 <sect1info> 14 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 15 <date>$Date$</date> 16 </sect1info> 17 <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html"?> 18 <title>Foreword</title> 19 20 <para>Having helped out with Linux From Scratch for a short time, I 21 noticed that we were getting many queries as to how to do things beyond 22 the base <acronym>LFS</acronym> system. At the time, the only assistance 23 specifically offered relating to <acronym>LFS</acronym> were the 24 <acronym>LFS</acronym> hints (<ulink url="&hints-root;">&hints-root;</ulink>). 25 Most of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> hints are extremely good and well written 26 but I (and others) could still see a need for more comprehensive help to 27 go Beyond <acronym>LFS</acronym> - hence <acronym>BLFS</acronym>.</para> 28 29 <para><acronym>BLFS</acronym> aims to be more than the 30 <acronym>LFS</acronym>-hints converted to <acronym>XML</acronym> although 31 much of our work is based around the hints and indeed some authors write 32 both hints and the relevant <acronym>BLFS</acronym> sections. We hope that 33 we can provide you with enough information to not only manage to build your 34 system up to what you want, whether it be a web server or a multimedia desktop 35 system, but also that you will learn a lot about system configuration as 36 you go.</para> 37 38 <para>Thanks as ever go to everyone in the <acronym>LFS</acronym>/<acronym>BLFS</acronym> 39 community; especially those who have contributed instructions, written text, 40 answered questions and generally shouted when things were wrong!</para> 41 42 <para>Finally, we encourage you to become involved in the community; ask 43 questions on the mailing list or news gateway and join in the fun on #lfs at 44 irc.linuxfromscratch.org. You can find more details about all of these in the 45 <xref linkend="introduction"/> section of the book.</para> 46 47 <para>Enjoy using <acronym>BLFS</acronym>.</para> 48 49 <blockquote><literallayout>Mark Hymers 9 <?dbhtml filename="preface.html" dir="preface"?> 10 11 <title>Preface</title> 12 13 <sect1 id="preface-foreword"> 14 <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html"?> 15 16 <sect1info> 17 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 18 <date>$Date$</date> 19 </sect1info> 20 21 <title>Foreword</title> 22 23 <para>Having helped out with Linux From Scratch for a short time, I 24 noticed that we were getting many queries as to how to do things beyond 25 the base LFS system. At the time, the only assistance specifically offered 26 relating to LFS were the LFS hints (<ulink url="&hints-root;"/>). 27 Most of the LFS hints are extremely good and well written 28 but I (and others) could still see a need for more comprehensive help to 29 go Beyond LFS - hence BLFS.</para> 30 31 <para>BLFS aims to be more than the LFS-hints converted to XML although 32 much of our work is based around the hints and indeed some authors write 33 both hints and the relevant BLFS sections. We hope that we can provide 34 you with enough information to not only manage to build your ystem up to 35 what you want, whether it be a web server or a multimedia desktop system, 36 but also that you will learn a lot about system configuration as you go.</para> 37 38 <para>Thanks as ever go to everyone in the LFS/BLFS 39 community; especially those who have contributed instructions, written text, 40 answered questions and generally shouted when things were wrong!</para> 41 42 <para>Finally, we encourage you to become involved in the community; ask 43 questions on the mailing list or news gateway and join in the fun on #lfs at 44 irc.linuxfromscratch.org. You can find more details about all of these in the 45 <xref linkend="introduction"/> section of the book.</para> 46 47 <para>Enjoy using BLFS.</para> 48 49 <blockquote> 50 <literallayout>Mark Hymers 50 51 markh <at> linuxfromscratch.org 51 BLFS Editor (July 2001–March 2003)</literallayout></blockquote> 52 53 <para>I still remember how I found the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> project 54 and started using the instructions that were completed at the time. I could 55 not believe how wonderful it was to get an application up and running very 56 quickly, with explanations as to why things were done a certain way. 57 Unfortunately, for me, it wasn't long before I was opening applications that 58 had nothing more than "To be done" on the page. I did what most would do, 59 I waited for someone else to do it. It wasn't too long before I am looking 60 through <application>Bugzilla</application> for something easy to do. 61 As with any learning experience, the definition of what was easy kept 62 changing.</para> 63 64 <para>We still encourage you to become involved as <acronym>BLFS</acronym> is 65 never really finished. Contributing or just using, we hope you enjoy 66 your <acronym>BLFS</acronym> experience.</para> 67 68 <blockquote><literallayout>Larry Lawrence 52 BLFS Editor (July 2001–March 2003)</literallayout> 53 </blockquote> 54 55 <para>I still remember how I found the BLFS project 56 and started using the instructions that were completed at the time. I could 57 not believe how wonderful it was to get an application up and running very 58 quickly, with explanations as to why things were done a certain way. 59 Unfortunately, for me, it wasn't long before I was opening applications that 60 had nothing more than "To be done" on the page. I did what most would do, 61 I waited for someone else to do it. It wasn't too long before I am looking 62 through <application>Bugzilla</application> for something easy to do. 63 As with any learning experience, the definition of what was easy kept 64 changing.</para> 65 66 <para>We still encourage you to become involved as BLFS is 67 never really finished. Contributing or just using, we hope you enjoy 68 your BLFS experience.</para> 69 70 <blockquote> 71 <literallayout>Larry Lawrence 69 72 larry <at> linuxfromscratch.org 70 BLFS Editor (March 2003–June 2004)</literallayout></blockquote> 71 72 <para>The <acronym>BLFS</acronym> project is a natural progression of 73 <acronym>LFS</acronym>. Together, these projects provide a unique resource for 74 the Open Source Community. They take the mystery out of the process of 75 building a complete, funtional software system from the source code contibuted 76 by many talented individuals throughout the world. They truly allow users 77 to implement the slogan "Your distro, your rules."</para> 78 79 <para>Our goal is to continue to provide the best resoure available that shows 80 you how to integrate many significant Open Source applications. Since these 81 applications are constantly updated and new applications are developed, this 82 book will never be complete. Additionally, there is always room for 83 improvement in explaining the nuances of how to install the different packages. 84 To make these improvements, we need your feedback. I encourage you to 85 participate on the different mailing lists, news groups, and 86 <acronym>IRC</acronym> channels to help meet these goals.</para> 87 88 <blockquote><literallayout>Bruce Dubbs 73 BLFS Editor (March 2003–June 2004)</literallayout> 74 </blockquote> 75 76 <para>The BLFS project is a natural progression of 77 LFS. Together, these projects provide a unique resource for 78 the Open Source Community. They take the mystery out of the process of 79 building a complete, funtional software system from the source code contibuted 80 by many talented individuals throughout the world. They truly allow users 81 to implement the slogan "Your distro, your rules."</para> 82 83 <para>Our goal is to continue to provide the best resoure available that shows 84 you how to integrate many significant Open Source applications. Since these 85 applications are constantly updated and new applications are developed, this 86 book will never be complete. Additionally, there is always room for 87 improvement in explaining the nuances of how to install the different packages. 88 To make these improvements, we need your feedback. I encourage you to 89 participate on the different mailing lists, news groups, and 90 IRC channels to help meet these goals.</para> 91 92 <blockquote> 93 <literallayout>Bruce Dubbs 89 94 bdubbs <at> linuxfromscratch.org 90 BLFS Editor (June 2004–Present)</literallayout></blockquote> 91 92 93 <sect2> 94 <title>Preface to Version 6.0</title> 95 96 <para>Version 6.0 is a major milestone in the evolution of BLFS. This 97 version provides installation instructions for 357 packages and an additional 98 21 sections covering configuration and customization of different aspects 99 of your system.</para> 100 101 <para>Changes and upgrades to the individual packages are detailed in the 102 <xref linkend='intro-welcome-changelog'/>. There you will see literally hundreds of 103 changes made since the last edition. In this change log, one name that you 104 will see over and over is Randy McMurchy. Without his efforts this 105 release would not have been possible. I want to take this opportunity to thank 106 him for the hundreds of hours he has worked to produce this release. I 107 also want to thank the other editors, both past and present, whose insight 108 and effort have made this current version possible. Last, but certainly not least, 109 I want to thank our resident XSL wizard, Manuel Canales Esparcia, whose 110 ability to format a complicated document such as BLFS is truly amazing.</para> 111 112 <para>There are two other areas of change that are worthy of note. First, 113 the license that BLFS is released under has changed significantly. In 114 fact, it is now released under two licenses. The first license, the 115 <xref linkend='CC'/>, covers the descriptive text in the book. The second, the 116 <xref linkend='AFL'/>, covers the instructions actually used to build and 117 install the packages. These licenses, along with the book itself, represent 118 our ongoing commitment to open and free sofware.</para> 119 120 <para>The final area of change is the addition of an Index. This section of 121 the book is still incomplete, but as the book continues to be developed, 122 will become an excellent resource for finding programs, libraries, 123 configuration files, and references to kernel configuration requirements. I 124 hope you find it useful.</para> 125 126 <blockquote><literallayout>Bruce Dubbs 127 March 17, 2005</literallayout></blockquote> 128 129 130 </sect2> 131 132 133 134 </sect1> 135 136 <sect1 id="preface-whoread"> 137 <sect1info> 138 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 139 <date>$Date$</date> 140 </sect1info> 141 <?dbhtml filename="whoread.html"?> 142 <title>Who would want to read this book</title> 143 144 <para>This book is mainly aimed at those who have built a system based 145 on the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book. It will also be useful for those who are 146 using other distributions, but for one reason or another want to manually build 147 software and are in need of some assistance. <acronym>BLFS</acronym> can be 148 used to create a range of diverse systems and so the target audience is 149 probably nearly as wide as that of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book. If you 150 found <acronym>LFS</acronym> useful, you should also like this!</para> 151 152 <para>Since Release 5.0, the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> book version matches 153 the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book version. This book may be incompatible with 154 a previous or latter release of the <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para> 155 156 </sect1> 157 158 <sect1 id="preface-organization"> 159 <sect1info> 160 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 161 <date>$Date$</date> 162 </sect1info> 163 <?dbhtml filename="organization.html"?> 164 <title>Organization</title> 165 166 <para>This book is divided into the following parts.</para> 167 168 <sect2><title>Part I - Introduction</title> 169 <para>This part contains information which is essential to 170 the rest of the book.</para></sect2> 171 172 <sect2><title>Part II - Post <acronym>LFS</acronym> Configuration and Extra 173 Software</title> 174 <para>Here we introduce basic configuration and security issues. We also 175 discuss a range of editors, file systems and shells which aren't covered in 176 the main <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2> 177 178 <sect2><title>Part III - General Libraries and Utilities</title> 179 <para>In this section we cover libraries which are often needed by the rest 180 of the book as well as system utilities. Information on Programming 181 (including recompiling <application>GCC</application> to support its full range 182 of languages) concludes this part.</para></sect2> 183 184 <sect2><title>Part IV - Connecting to a Network</title> 185 <para>Here we cover how to connect to a network when you aren't using 186 the simple static <acronym>IP</acronym> setup given in the main 187 <acronym>LFS</acronym> book.</para></sect2> 188 189 <sect2><title>Part V - Basic Networking</title> 190 <para>Networking libraries and command-line networking tools make up the 191 bulk of this part.</para></sect2> 192 193 <sect2><title>Part VI - Server Networking</title> 194 <para>Here we deal with setting up mail and other servers (such as 195 <application><acronym>SSH</acronym></application>, <application><acronym>CVS 196 </acronym></application>, etc.).</para></sect2> 197 198 <sect2><title>Part VII - Content Serving</title> 199 <para>In this part we deal with databases and web server software.</para></sect2> 200 201 <sect2><title>Part VIII - X + Window Managers</title> 202 <para>This part explains how to set up a basic 203 X Window System installation along 204 with some generic <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.</para></sect2> 205 206 <sect2><title>Part IX - KDE</title> 207 <para>For those who want to use the K Desktop Environment or some parts of 208 it, this part covers it.</para></sect2> 209 210 <sect2><title>Part X - GNOME</title> 211 <para>GNOME is the main alternative to KDE in the Desktop Environment arena and 212 we cover both GNOME-1.4 213 and GNOME-&gnome-version; here.</para></sect2> 214 215 <sect2><title>Part XI - X Software</title> 216 <para>Office programs and graphical web browsers are important to most people. 217 They, along with some generic <application>X</application> software can be 218 found in this part of the book.</para></sect2> 219 220 <sect2><title>Part XII - Multimedia</title> 221 <para>Here we cover setting multimedia libraries and drivers along with some 222 audio, video and <acronym>CD</acronym>-writing programs.</para></sect2> 223 224 <sect2><title>Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and Typesetting</title> 225 <para>The <acronym>PST</acronym> part of the book covers things from 226 <application>Ghostscript</application>, <application><acronym>CUPS</acronym> 227 </application> and <application>DocBook</application> 228 to installing <application>TeX</application>.</para></sect2> 229 230 <sect2><title>Appendices</title> 231 <para>The Appendices cover information which doesn't belong in the main 232 book; they are mainly there as a reference.</para></sect2> 233 234 </sect1> 95 BLFS Editor (June 2004–Present)</literallayout> 96 </blockquote> 97 98 99 <sect2> 100 <title>Preface to Version 6.0</title> 101 102 <para>Version 6.0 is a major milestone in the evolution of BLFS. This 103 version provides installation instructions for 357 packages and an additional 104 21 sections covering configuration and customization of different aspects 105 of your system.</para> 106 107 <para>Changes and upgrades to the individual packages are detailed in the 108 <xref linkend='intro-welcome-changelog'/>. There you will see literally hundreds of 109 changes made since the last edition. In this change log, one name that you 110 will see over and over is Randy McMurchy. Without his efforts this 111 release would not have been possible. I want to take this opportunity to thank 112 him for the hundreds of hours he has worked to produce this release. I 113 also want to thank the other editors, both past and present, whose insight 114 and effort have made this current version possible. Last, but certainly not least, 115 I want to thank our resident XSL wizard, Manuel Canales Esparcia, whose 116 ability to format a complicated document such as BLFS is truly amazing.</para> 117 118 <para>There are two other areas of change that are worthy of note. First, 119 the license that BLFS is released under has changed significantly. In 120 fact, it is now released under two licenses. The first license, the 121 <xref linkend='CC'/>, covers the descriptive text in the book. The second, the 122 <xref linkend='AFL'/>, covers the instructions actually used to build and 123 install the packages. These licenses, along with the book itself, represent 124 our ongoing commitment to open and free sofware.</para> 125 126 <para>The final area of change is the addition of an Index. This section of 127 the book is still incomplete, but as the book continues to be developed, 128 will become an excellent resource for finding programs, libraries, 129 configuration files, and references to kernel configuration requirements. I 130 hope you find it useful.</para> 131 132 <blockquote> 133 <literallayout>Bruce Dubbs 134 March 17, 2005</literallayout> 135 </blockquote> 136 137 </sect2> 138 139 </sect1> 140 141 <sect1 id="preface-whoread"> 142 <?dbhtml filename="whoread.html"?> 143 144 <sect1info> 145 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 146 <date>$Date$</date> 147 </sect1info> 148 149 <title>Who would want to read this book</title> 150 151 <para>This book is mainly aimed at those who have built a system based 152 on the LFS book. It will also be useful for those who are 153 using other distributions, but for one reason or another want to manually build 154 software and are in need of some assistance. BLFS can be 155 used to create a range of diverse systems and so the target audience is 156 probably nearly as wide as that of the LFS book. If you 157 found LFS useful, you should also like this!</para> 158 159 <para>Since Release 5.0, the BLFS book version matches 160 the LFS book version. This book may be incompatible with 161 a previous or latter release of the LFS book.</para> 162 163 </sect1> 164 165 <sect1 id="preface-organization"> 166 <?dbhtml filename="organization.html"?> 167 168 <sect1info> 169 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername> 170 <date>$Date$</date> 171 </sect1info> 172 173 <title>Organization</title> 174 175 <para>This book is divided into the following parts.</para> 176 177 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part I - Introduction</bridgehead> 178 179 <para>This part contains information which is essential to 180 the rest of the book.</para> 181 182 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part II - Post LFS Configuration and Extra 183 Software</bridgehead> 184 185 <para>Here we introduce basic configuration and security issues. We also 186 discuss a range of editors, file systems and shells which aren't covered in 187 the main LFS book.</para> 188 189 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part III - General Libraries and Utilities</bridgehead> 190 191 <para>In this section we cover libraries which are often needed by the rest 192 of the book as well as system utilities. Information on Programming 193 (including recompiling <application>GCC</application> to support its full range 194 of languages) concludes this part.</para> 195 196 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part IV - Connecting to a Network</bridgehead> 197 198 <para>Here we cover how to connect to a network when you aren't using 199 the simple static IP setup given in the main 200 LFS book.</para> 201 202 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part V - Basic Networking</bridgehead> 203 204 <para>Networking libraries and command-line networking tools make up the 205 bulk of this part.</para> 206 207 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VI - Server Networking</bridgehead> 208 209 <para>Here we deal with setting up mail and other servers (such as 210 <application>SSH</application>, <application>CVS</application>, etc.).</para> 211 212 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VII - Content Serving</bridgehead> 213 <para>In this part we deal with databases and web server software.</para> 214 215 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part VIII - X + Window Managers</bridgehead> 216 217 <para>This part explains how to set up a basic <application>X Window 218 System</application> installation along with some generic 219 <application>X</application> libraries and Window managers.</para> 220 221 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part IX - KDE</bridgehead> 222 223 <para>For those who want to use the <application>K Desktop 224 Environment</application> or some parts of it, this part covers it.</para> 225 226 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part X - GNOME</bridgehead> 227 228 <para><application>GNOME</application> is the main alternative to 229 <application>KDE</application> in the Desktop Environment arena and 230 we cover both <application>GNOME</application>-1.4 231 and <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version; here.</para> 232 233 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XI - X Software</bridgehead> 234 235 <para>Office programs and graphical web browsers are important to most people. 236 They, along with some generic <application>X</application> software can be 237 found in this part of the book.</para> 238 239 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XII - Multimedia</bridgehead> 240 241 <para>Here we cover setting multimedia libraries and drivers along with some 242 audio, video and CD-writing programs.</para> 243 244 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and Typesetting</bridgehead> 245 246 <para>The PST part of the book covers things from <application>Ghostscript</application>, 247 <application>CUPS</application> and <application>DocBook</application> 248 to installing <application>TeX</application>.</para> 249 250 <bridgehead renderas="sect2">Appendices</bridgehead> 251 252 <para>The Appendices cover information which doesn't belong in the main 253 book; they are mainly there as a reference.</para> 254 255 </sect1> 235 256 236 257 </preface>
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