%general-entities; ]> Acknowledgments We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Linux From Scratch Project. Project Team Members Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> – Linux From Scratch initiator, LFS Project organizer Christine Barczak <theladyskye@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS Book Editor Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS Project Co-Leader, LFS general package maintainer, LFS Technical Writer. Craig Colton <meerkats@bellsouth.net> – LFS, Automated Linux From Scratch (ALFS), BLFS and hints project logo creator Nathan Coulson <nathan@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS-Bootscripts maintainer Jeroen Coumans <jeroen@linuxfromscratch.org> – Website developer, FAQ maintainer Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS Quality Assurance (QA) Team leader, BLFS Book Editor Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS XML/XSL maintainer Jim Gifford <jim@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS Technical Writer, Patches maintainer Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> – ALFS Maintainer, LFS Live-CD maintainer Nicholas Leippe <nicholas@linuxfromscratch.org> – Wiki maintainer Anderson Lizardo <lizardo@linuxfromscratch.org> – Website backend scripts maintainer Scot Mc Pherson <scot@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS NNTP gateway maintainer. Ryan Oliver <ryan@linuxfromscratch.org> – Testing Team leader, Toolchain maintainer, co-creator of Pure LFS (PLFS) Alexander Patrakov <semzx@newmail.ru> – Former LFS Technical Writer James Robertson <jwrober@linuxfromscratch.org> – Bugzilla maintainer, Wiki developer, LFS Tecnical Writer Tushar Teredesai <tushar@linuxfromscratch.org> – BLFS Book Editor, hints and patches projects maintainer Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> – LFS Technical Writer, Bugzilla maintainer, LFS-Bootscripts maintainer, LFS Server co-administrator Zack Winkles <zwinkles@gmail.com> – Former LFS Technical Writer Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailing lists who helped make this book possible by giving their suggestions, testing the book, and submitting bug reports, instructions, and their experiences with installing various packages. Translators Manuel Canales Esparcia <macana@lfs-es.com> – Spanish LFS translation project Johan Lenglet <johan@linuxfromscratch.org> – French LFS translation project Anderson Lizardo <lizardo@linuxfromscratch.org> – Portuguese LFS translation project Thomas Reitelbach <tr@erdfunkstelle.de> – German LFS translation project Mirror Maintainers North American Mirrors Scott Kveton <scott@osuosl.org> – lfs.oregonstate.edu mirror Mikhail Pastukhov <miha@xuy.biz> – lfs.130th.net mirror William Astle <lost@l-w.net> – ca.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Jeremy Polen <jpolen@rackspace.com> – us2.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Tim Jackson <tim@idge.net> – linuxfromscratch.idge.net mirror Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linux-phreak.net> – lfs.linux-phreak.net mirror South American Mirrors Andres Meggiotto <sysop@mesi.com.ar> – lfs.mesi.com.ar mirror Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> – lfsmirror.lfs-es.info mirror Eduardo B. Fonseca <ebf@aedsolucoes.com.br> – br.linuxfromscratch.org mirror European Mirrors Barna Koczka <barna@siker.hu> – hu.linuxfromscratch.org mirror UK Mirror Service – linuxfromscratch.mirror.ac.uk mirror Martin Voss <Martin.Voss@ada.de> – lfs.linux-matrix.net mirror Guido Passet <guido@primerelay.net> – nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Bastiaan Jacques <baafie@planet.nl> – lfs.pagefault.net mirror Roel Neefs <lfs-mirror@linuxfromscratch.rave.org> – linuxfromscratch.rave.org mirror Justin Knierim <justin@jrknierim.de> – www.lfs-matrix.de mirror Stephan Brendel <stevie@stevie20.de> – lfs.netservice-neuss.de mirror Antonin Sprinzl <Antonin.Sprinzl@tuwien.ac.at> – at.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Fredrik Danerklint <fredan-lfs@fredan.org> – se.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Parisian sysadmins <archive@doc.cs.univ-paris8.fr> – www2.fr.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Alexander Velin <velin@zadnik.org> – bg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Dirk Webster <dirk@securewebservices.co.uk> – lfs.securewebservices.co.uk mirror Thomas Skyt <thomas@sofagang.dk> – dk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Simon Nicoll <sime@dot-sime.com> – uk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Asian Mirrors Pui Yong <pyng@spam.averse.net> – sg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror Stuart Harris <stuart@althalus.me.uk> – lfs.mirror.intermedia.com.sg mirror Australian Mirrors Jason Andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> – au.linuxfromscratch.org mirror A very special thank you to our donators Dean Benson <dean@vipersoft.co.uk> for several monetary contributions Hagen Herrschaft <hrx@hrxnet.de> for donating a 2.2 GHz P4 system, now running under the name of Lorien VA Software who, on behalf of Linux.com, donated a VA Linux 420 (former StartX SP2) workstation Mark Stone for donating Belgarath, the linuxfromscratch.org server