# About the Included CD

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 CLFS. This book refers to this system as the host system. The CD images are actively maintained and updated versions can be found at

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

- The X Window System Environment

- Web Tools

  - Wget (command line file retriever)

  - Lynx (text web browser)

  - Irssi (console IRC client)

  - Firefox (graphical web browser)

  - Xchat (X-based IRC client)

- Text Editors

  - Vim

  - Nano

  - Joe

- Network Tools

  - SSH Server and Client

  - NFS Server and Client

  - Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares

  - Subversion

  - Dhcpcd (DHCP client)

- Filesystem Programs

  - Reiserfsprogs

  - Xfsprogs