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 General Package maintainer, LFS Book editor.
Craig Colton <[email protected]> -- LFS, ALFS, BLFS and Hints Project logo creator.
Jeroen Coumans <[email protected]> -- Website developer, FAQ maintainer.
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> -- LFS Quality Assurance Team leader, BLFS Book editor.
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.
Scot Mc Pherson <[email protected]> -- LFS NNTP gateway maintainer.
Ryan Oliver <[email protected]> -- Testing Team leader, co-creator of PLFS.
James Robertson <[email protected]> -- Bugzilla maintainer, Wiki developer, LFS Book editor.
Greg Schafer <[email protected]> -- Toolchain maintainer, 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.
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.
Jason Andrade <[email protected]> -- au.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
William Astle <[email protected]> -- ca.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Baque <[email protected]> -- lfs.cict.fr mirror.
Stephan Brendel <[email protected]> -- lfs.netservice-neuss.de mirror.
Ian Chilton <[email protected]> -- us.linuxfromscratch.org, linuxfromscratch.co.uk mirrors.
Fredrik Danerklint <[email protected]> -- se.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
David D.W. Downey <[email protected]> -- lfs.learnbyexample.com mirror.
Eduardo B. Fonseca <[email protected]> -- br.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Hagen Herrschaft <[email protected]> -- de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Tim Jackson <[email protected]> -- linuxfromscratch.idge.net mirror.
Barna Koczka <[email protected]> -- hu.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Roel Neefs -- linuxfromscratch.rave.org mirror.
Simon Nicoll <[email protected]> -- uk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Ervin S. Odisho <[email protected]> -- lfs.activalink.net mirror.
Guido Passet <[email protected]> -- nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Mikhail Pastukhov <[email protected]> -- lfs.130th.net mirror.
Jeremy Polen <[email protected]> -- us2.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
UK Mirror Service -- linuxfromscratch.mirror.co.uk mirror.
Thomas Skyt <[email protected]> -- dk.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Antonin Sprinzl <[email protected]> -- at.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Dag Stenstad <[email protected]> for providing no.linuxfromscratch.org and Ian Chilton for running it.
Parisian sysadmins <[email protected]> -- www2.fr.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <[email protected]> for providing and running the linuxfromscratch.org server.
Alexander Velin <[email protected]> -- bg.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
Martin Voss <[email protected]> -- lfs.linux-matrix.net mirror.
Pui Yong <[email protected]> -- sg.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 answering countless questions on IRC and having a great deal of patience.