Thank You
We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Linux From Scratch Project.
Current Project Team Members
- Gerard Beekmans | LFS Initiator, LFS Project Organizer.
- Matthew Burgess | LFS Project Co-Leader, LFS General Package Maintainer, LFS Book Editor.
- Archaic | LFS Book Editor, BLFS Book Editor, HLFS Project Leader, Patches Maintainer, Hints Maintainer.
- Jamie Bennett | ALFS Profile Editor, nALFS Maintainer.
- Joachim Beckers | ALFS Profile Editor.
- Nathan Coulson | LFS-Bootscripts Maintainer.
- Bruce Dubbs | BLFS Editor.
- Manuel Canales Esparcia | LFS Book Editor (XML).
- Jim Gifford | LFS Book Editor, Patches Project Leader.
- Jeremy Huntwork | LFS Book Editor, LiveCD Project Creator, ALFS Project Leader, Website Maintainer.
- David Jensen | BLFS Book Editor.
- Justin Knierim | FTP Mirror Maintainer, LiveCD Developer, Website Maintainer.
- Larry Lawrence | BLFS Book Editor.
- Anderson Lizardo | Website Scripts Creator & Maintainer.
- DJ Lucas | BLFS Book Editor.
- Randy McMurchy | BLFS Project Leader.
- Alexander Patrakov | LiveCD Developer.
- Thomas Pegg | ALFS Profile Editor.
- Ryan Oliver | Toolchain Maintainer.
- James Robertson | Bugzilla Maintainer, ALFS Documentation.
- Tushar Teredesai | BLFS Book Editor, Bugzilla Maintainer, Hints Project Leader, Patches Project Maintainer.
- Igor Zivkovic | BLFS Book Editor.
- 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.
Translators
- Manuel Canales Esparcia | Spanish LFS Translation Project.
- Johan Lenglet | French LFS Translation Project.
- Anderson Lizardo | Portuguese LFS Translation Project.
- Thomas Reitelbach | German LFS Translation Project.
Mirror Maintainers
North American Mirrors
- Scott Kveton | lfs.osuosl.org mirror.
- Eujon Sellers | lfs.introspeed.com mirror.
- Justin Knierim | lfs-matrix.net mirror.
South American Mirrors
- Manuel Canales Esparcia | lfsmirror.lfs-es.info mirror.
- Luis Falcon | torredehanoi.org mirror.
European Mirrors
- Unknown User | mirror.vtx.ch mirror.
- Guido Passet | nl.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
- Bastiaan Jacques | lfs.pagefault.net mirror.
- Sven Cranshoff | lfs.lineo.be mirror.
- Scarlet Belgium | lfs.scarlet.be mirror.
- Unknown User | linuxfromscratch.xtra-net.org mirror.
- Sebastian Faulborn | lfs.aliensoft.org mirror.
- Stuart Fox | lfs.dontuse.ms mirror.
- Ralf Uhlemann | lfs.oss-mirror.org.
- Antonin Sprinzl | at.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
- ROHOST | lfs.rohost.com mirror.
- Fredrik Danerklint | se.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
- Franck | lfs.linuxpourtous.com mirror.
- ICX | lfs.icx.fr mirror.
- Philippe Baqué | lfs.cict.fr mirror.
- Ralf Uhlemann | lfs.linux-mirror.org.
- Vitaly Chekasin | lfs.pilgrims.ru mirror.
- Benjamin Heil | lfs.wankoo.org mirror.
Asian Mirrors
- Satit Phermsawang | lfs.phayoune.org mirror.
- Shizunet Co.,Ltd. | lfs.mirror.shizu-net.jp mirror.
- Init World | lfs.initworld.com mirror.
Donators
- Real Estate Book
- One Travel Source
- Online Insurance Quotes
- Fernstudium - Information about distance-learning in Germany
- Trivago - Hotel price comparison Polska
- Spiele - free online games in German
- Web Hosting Search for hosting some of our mirror sites on their linux web hosting servers.
- Company Formation — We use and support FOSS products.
- Buch Tausch for financial donations.
- SEO Company Canada for supporting Open Source projects and different Linux distributions.
- Dean Benson | for several monetary contributions.
- DREAMWVR.COM for their past sponsorship of donating various resources to the LFS and related sub projects.
- Hagen Herrschaft 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 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.