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  <title>Acknowledgments</title>

  <para>We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their
  contributions toward the BLFS and LFS projects:</para>

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    <listitem>
      <para>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.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:strider@linux.com">Mark Stone</ulink>
      &lt;mstone &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for donating the linuxfromscratch.org
      servers.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:gerard@linuxfromscratch.org">Gerard
      Beekmans</ulink> &lt;gerard &lt;at&gt; linuxfromscratch.org&gt; for starting and
      writing the vast majority of the LFS project.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:highos@linuxfromscratch.org">Jesse
      Tie-Ten-Quee</ulink> &lt;higho &lt;at&gt; @linuxfromscratch.org&gt; 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!</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="http://www.dreamwvr.com/services">DREAMWVR.COM
      </ulink> for their ongoing sponsorship by donating various resources to the
      LFS and related sub projects.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and
      linuxfromscratch.com domain names.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:bkenoah@oswd.org">Frank Skettino</ulink>
      &lt;bkenoah &lt;at&gt; oswd.org&gt; at <ulink  url="http://www.oswd.org">OSWD</ulink> for
      coming up the initial design of the LFS and BLFS  websites.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para><ulink url="mailto:garrett@linux.com">Garrett LeSage</ulink>
      &lt;garrett &lt;at&gt; linux.com&gt; for creating the LFS banner</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Jeff Bauman (former co-editor of the book) for his assistance
      with getting BLFS off the ground.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>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.</para>
    </listitem>
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