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11 <title>About the Included CD</title>
13 <para>For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that
14 contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch
15 system. The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment
16 for building LFS. This book refers to this system as the
17 <quote>host system.</quote> The CD images are actively maintained and
18 updated versions can be found at
19 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/"/></para>
21 <para>In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system
22 on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed:</para>
27 <para>An HTML version of this book</para>
31 <para>The X Window System Environment</para>
35 <para>Web Tools</para>
38 <para>Wget (command line file retriever)</para>
41 <para>Lynx (text web browser)</para>
44 <para>Irssi (console IRC client)</para>
47 <para>Firefox (graphical web browser)</para>
50 <para>Xchat (X-based IRC client)</para>
56 <para>Text Editors</para>
68 <para>Network Tools</para>
71 <para>SSH Server and Client</para>
74 <para>NFS Server and Client</para>
77 <para>Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares</para>
80 <para>Subversion</para>
83 <para>Dhcpcd (DHCP client)</para>
89 <para>Filesystem Programs</para>
92 <para>Reiserfsprogs</para>
101 <para>nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds</para>