Acknowledgments

All those people listed on the Credits page for submitting patches, instructions and corrections to the book. The former editor would especially like to thank Bruce, Larry and Billy for their enormous inputs to the project.

Jeff Bauman (former co-editor of the book) for his assistance with getting BLFS off the ground.

Gerard Beekmans <gerard <at> linuxfromscratch.org> for starting and writing the vast majority of the LFS project.

Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and linuxfromscratch.com domain names.

DREAMWVR.COM for their ongoing sponsorship by donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects.

Bruce Dubbs for donating the anduin package server and his substantial contribution to the purchase of the new quantum server.

Garrett LeSage <garrett <at> linux.com> for creating the LFS banner.

Frank Skettino <bkenoah <at> oswd.org> at OSWD for coming up with the initial design of the LFS and BLFS websites.

Mark Stone <mstone <at> linux.com> for donating the original linuxfromscratch.org servers.

Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <higho <at> linuxfromscratch.org> for answering many questions on IRC, having a great deal of patience and for not killing the former editor for the joke in the original BLFS announcement!

Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailing lists who are making this book possible by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports.