Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions towards the LinuxFromScratch project: Bryan Dumm for providing the hardware to run linuxfromscratch.org and for providing http://www.bcpub.com as the lfs.bcpub.com mirror DREAMWVR.COM for their ongoing sponsorhip by donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects. Jan Niemann for providing http://helga.lk.etc.tu-bs.de as the 134.169.139.209 mirror Johan Lenglet for running the French translation project at http://www.fr.linuxfromscratch.org Michael Peters for contributing the Apple PowerPC modifications VA Linux Systems who, on behalf of Linux.com, donated a VA Linux 420 (formerly StartX SP2) workstation towards this project Jesse Tie Ten Quee who donated a Yamaha CDRW 8824E CD-RW. Jesse Tie Ten Quee for providing quasar.highos.com as the www.ca.linuxfromscratch.org mirror. O'Reilly for donating books on SQL and PHP. Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and linuxfromscratch.com domain names. Torsten Westermann for running the lfs.linux-provider.net http and ftp mirror sites. Countless other people from the various LFS mailinglists who are making this book happen by making suggestions, testing and submitting bug reports.