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+<sect1 id="ch01-acknowledgments">
+<title>Acknowledgments</title>
+
+<para>
+I would like to thank the following people and organizations for their
+contributions toward the Linux From Scratch project:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:bdumm@boddy.bcpub.com">Bryan Dumm</ulink> for providing
+the hardware to run linuxfromscratch.org and for providing
+<ulink url="http://www.bcpub.com">http://www.bcpub.com</ulink> as the
+lfs.bcpub.com mirror.
+</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>
+<ulink url="mailto:jan.niemann@tu-bs.de">Jan Niemann</ulink> for providing
+<ulink url="http://helga.lk.etc.tu-bs.de">
+http://helga.lk.etc.tu-bs.de</ulink> as the 134.169.139.209 mirror.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:johanlenglet@linuxfromscratch.org">Johan Lenglet</ulink> for
+running the French translation project at <ulink
+url="http://www.fr.linuxfromscratch.org">
+http://www.fr.linuxfromscratch.org</ulink>.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:mpeters@mac.com">Michael Peters</ulink> for
+contributing the Apple PowerPC modifications.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="http://www.valinux.com">VA Linux Systems</ulink> who, on
+behalf of <ulink url="http://www.linux.com">Linux.com</ulink>, donated a
+VA Linux 420 (formerly StartX SP2) workstation toward this project.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:highos@highos.com">Jesse Tie Ten Quee</ulink> who
+donated a Yamaha CDRW 8824E CD-RW.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:highos@highos.com">Jesse Tie Ten Quee</ulink> for
+providing quasar.highos.com as the www.ca.linuxfromscratch.org
+mirror.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly</ulink> for donating books
+on SQL and PHP.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Robert Briggs for donating the linuxfromscratch.org and
+linuxfromscratch.com domain names.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+<ulink url="mailto:westermann@linux-provider.net">Torsten
+Westermann</ulink> for running the lfs.linux-provider.net HTTP and FTP
+mirror sites.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>
+Countless other people from the various LFS mailing lists who are making
+this book happen by making suggestions, testing, and submitting bug
+reports.
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</sect1>
+