We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the Hardened Linux From Scratch Project.
Gerard Beekmans <gerard AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – Linux From Scratch initiator, LFS Project organizer, Donated the use of the LFS server.
Matthew Burgess <matthew AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – LFS Project Co-Leader, Assisted in setting us up on the LFS server.
Craig Colton <meerkats AT bellsouth D0T net> – Donated the HLFS project logo creator.
Nathan Coulson <nathan AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – LFS bootscripts maintainer, assists with integration of HLFS bootscripts.
Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – BLFS Book Editor, Donates mirror space.
Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – LFS/BLFS/HLFS XML/XSL maintainer, couldn't do it without him.
Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork AT linuxfromscratch D0T org> – ALFS Maintainer, LFS Live-CD maintainer, This guy does a bit of everything just to help out.
Thanks again to Bruce Dubbs, Randy McMurchy, Larry Lawrence, Igor Zivkovic, DJ Lucas, and to all the contributors of the BLFS book from which the HLFS book derived much of its content from.
Countless other people on the various mailing lists who helped make this book possible by giving their suggestions, testing the book, and submitting bug reports, instructions, and their experiences with installing various packages.
Eli Billauer who contributed kernel modifications (erandom) to solve an entropy depletion bug.
Jerome Pinot who contributed the encrypted swap hint and GnuPG page.
Gentoo Linux for numerous patches.
Openwall Project for patches.