%general-entities; ]> For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch system. The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment for building LFS. This book refers to this system as the host system. The CD images are actively maintained and updated versions can be found at In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed: An HTML version of this book The X Window System Environment Web Tools Wget (command line file retriever) Lynx (text web browser) Irssi (console IRC client) Firefox (graphical web browser) Xchat (X-based IRC client) Text Editors Vim Nano Network Tools SSH Server and Client NFS Server and Client Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares Subversion Dhcpcd (DHCP client) Filesystem Programs Reiserfsprogs Xfsprogs nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds