We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Linux From Scratch Project.
Gerard Beekmans <[email protected]> -- Linux-From-Scratch initiator, LFS Project organizer.
Matthew Burgess <[email protected]> -- LFS Project Co-Leader, LFS General Package maintainer, LFS Book editor.
Craig Colton <[email protected]> -- LFS, ALFS, BLFS and Hints Project logo creator.
Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> -- LFS-Bootscripts maintainer.
Jeroen Coumans <[email protected]> -- Website developer, FAQ maintainer.
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> -- LFS Quality Assurance Team leader, BLFS Book editor.
Manuel Canales Esparcia <[email protected]> -- LFS Book Editor (XML).
Alex Groenewoud <[email protected]> -- LFS Book editor.
Mark Hymers <[email protected]> -- CVS maintainer, BLFS Book creator, former LFS Book editor.
James Iwanek <[email protected]> -- System Administration Team member.
Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> -- Wiki maintainer.
Anderson Lizardo <[email protected]> -- Website backend scripts creator and maintainer.
Bill Maltby <[email protected]> -- LFS Project organizer.
Alexander Patrakov <[email protected]> -- LFS Book Editor (internationalization/localization).
Scot Mc Pherson <[email protected]> -- LFS NNTP gateway maintainer.
Ryan Oliver <[email protected]> -- Testing Team leader, Toolchain maintainer, co-creator of PLFS.
James Robertson <[email protected]> -- Bugzilla maintainer, Wiki developer, LFS Book editor.
Greg Schafer <[email protected]> -- Toolchain maintainer, Former LFS Book editor, co-creator of PLFS.
Tushar Teredesai <[email protected]> -- BLFS Book editor, Hints and Patches Projects maintainer.
Jeremy Utley <[email protected]> -- LFS Book editor, Bugzilla maintainer, LFS-Bootscripts Maintainer, LFS Server co-admin.
Zack Winkles <[email protected]> -- LFS Book editor (Emerging Technologies), LFS-Bootscripts co-maintainer.
Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS mailing lists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports, instructions and their experiences with installing various packages.
Manuel Canales Esparcia <[email protected]> -- Spanish LFS translation project.
Johan Lenglet <[email protected]> -- French LFS translation project.
Anderson Lizardo <[email protected]> -- Portuguese LFS translation project.
Scott Kveton <[email protected]> -- lfs.oregonstate.edu mirror
Mikhail Pastukhov <[email protected]> -- lfs.130th.net mirror.
Unknown User <[email protected]> -- lfs.crash404.com mirror.
William Astle <[email protected]> -- ca.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Jeremy Polen <[email protected]> -- us2.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Tim Jackson <[email protected]> -- linuxfromscratch.idge.net mirror.
Jeremy Utley <[email protected]> -- lfs.linux-phreak.net mirror.
Manuel Canales Esparcia <[email protected]> -- lfsmirror.lfs-es.org mirror.
Andres Meggiotto <[email protected]> -- lfs.mesi.com.ar mirror.
Eduardo B. Fonseca <[email protected]> -- br.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Barna Koczka <[email protected]> -- hu.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
UK Mirror Service -- linuxfromscratch.mirror.ac.uk mirror.
Martin Voss <[email protected]> -- lfs.linux-matrix.net mirror.
Unknown User <[email protected]> -- mirror.vtx.ch mirror
Guido Passet <[email protected]> -- nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Bastiaan Jacques <[email protected]> -- lfs.pagefault.net mirror
Roel Neefs <[email protected]> -- linuxfromscratch.rave.org mirror.
Justin Knierim <[email protected]> -- www.lfs-matrix.de mirror
Stephan Brendel <[email protected]> -- lfs.netservice-neuss.de mirror.
Unknown User <[email protected]> -- linuxfromscratch.je-zi.de mirror
Unknown User <[email protected]> -- linuxfromscratch.tuxcenter.net mirror
Hagen Herrschaft <[email protected]> -- de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Antonin Sprinzl <[email protected]> -- at.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Fredrik Danerklint <[email protected]> -- se.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Parisian sysadmins <[email protected]> -- www2.fr.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Alexander Velin <[email protected]> -- bg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Dirk Webster <[email protected]> -- lfs.securewebservices.co.uk mirror
Thomas Skyt <[email protected]> -- dk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Simon Nicoll <[email protected]> -- uk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Pui Yong <[email protected]> -- sg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Stuart Harris <[email protected]> -- lfs.mirror.intermedia.com.sg mirror
Unknown User <[email protected]> -- lfs.mirror.if.itb.ac.id mirror
Jason Andrade <[email protected]> -- au.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Dean Benson <[email protected]> for several monetary contributions.
DREAMWVR.COM for their past sponsorship of donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects.
Hagen Herrschaft <[email protected]> for donating a 2.2 GHz P4 system, now running under the name of lorien.
O'Reilly for donating books on SQL and PHP.
VA Software who, on behalf of Linux.com, donated a VA Linux 420 (former StartX SP2) workstation.
Mark Stone for donating shadowfax, the first linuxfromscratch.org server, a 750 MHz P3 with 512 MB RAM and two 9 GB SCSI drives. When the server moved it was renamed to belgarath.
Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <[email protected]> for donating a Yamaha CDRW 8824E CD-writer.
Countless other people on the various LFS mailing lists who are making this book better by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports, and throwing in their criticism.
Timothy Bauscher <[email protected]> -- LFS Book editor, Hints Project maintainer.
Robert Briggs for originally donating the linuxfromscratch.org and linuxfromscratch.com domain names.
Ian Chilton <[email protected]> for maintaining the Hints project.
Marc Heerdink <[email protected]> -- LFS Book editor.
Seth W. Klein <[email protected]> -- LFS FAQ creator.
Garrett LeSage <[email protected]> -- Original LFS banner creator.
Simon Perreault <[email protected]> -- Hints Project maintainer.
Geert Poels <[email protected]> -- Original BLFS banner creator; based on the LFS banner by Garrett LeSage.
Frank Skettino <[email protected]> for the initial design of the old website -- have a look at http://www.oswd.org/.
Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <[email protected]> for temporarily hosting the linuxfromscratch.org server, answering countless questions on IRC and having a great deal of patience.