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<sect1 id="ch-intro-livecd">
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  <title>About the Included CD</title>

  <para>For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that
  contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch
  system.  The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment
  for building LFS.  This book refers to this system as the
  <quote>host system.</quote>  The CD images are actively maintained and
  updated versions can be found at
  <ulink url="ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/"/></para>

  <para>In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system
  on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed:</para>

  <itemizedlist>

    <listitem>
      <para>An HTML version of this book</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>The X Window System Environment</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>Web Tools</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Wget (command line file retriever)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Lynx (text web browser)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Irssi (console IRC client)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Firefox (graphical web browser)</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Xchat (X-based IRC client)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>Text Editors</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Vim</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Nano</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>Network Tools</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>SSH Server and Client</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>NFS Server and Client</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Subversion</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Dhcpcd (DHCP client)</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>Filesystem Programs</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reiserfsprogs</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Xfsprogs</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds</para>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

</sect1>