Article: 732 of comp.os.linux.announce Path: pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr! ghost.dsi.unimi.it!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun! news.funet.fi!hydra!hydra!not-for-mail From: sanjuan!pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: Linux Contributors Followup-To: comp.os.linux Date: 1 Jun 1993 10:42:29 +0300 Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA Lines: 62 Sender: wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: <1uf195INN20h@hydra.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.helsinki.fi Keywords: contributors, who-is-who This is the current list of Linux contributors. It is woefully inadequate. The kindest thing I can say about it is that, since it is so short, if you name is not on it, you shouldn't feel to bad. Nonetheless, I am posting it here for two reasons. 1) It is included in the "Using SLS" booklet which accompanies the SLS CDROM, and 2) it was sent to Matt for possible inclusion with LDP If you are absent and want to be counted, send me a note. If you are shy and want to be removed, ditto. Peter -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.4 Contributors Herein find a very week attempt at accrediting work to some of the pio- neers who helped shape Linux to its current form. This is almost certainly doomed to failure, since no one can really keep track of such a complex process. Nevertheless, it would be neglegant not to try. So here goes. The acronym LOOS stands for Lots Of Other Stuff. Werner Almesber Lilo, msdos fs, inherited fs, loop fs Ross Biro TCP/IP David Black gdb, and a whole bunch more. Robert Blum FAQ work. Ed Carp Mailpak Alan Cleg ABC release. Earl Chu The original stdio, it served us well. Thomas Dunbar TeX, LOOS. David Engel Shared jump libs Drew Eckhardt SCSI drivers Bruce Evans 386 Minix, bcc, bootstrap, LOOS. Rik Faith All those ported GNU-utils Gordon Irlam Inspiration for VC's, setterm pgm. Michael K Johnson Devices, printer, proc. Fred Van Kempen Net-2 (SLIP) Nathan Laredo ported sendmail, deliver, mouse patches? Matthias Lautner Ptys under Minix, dosemu. A. V. LeBlanc First authorative collection: MCC. Ari Lemke linux-activist mail Hiu Lu gcc, static/shared/jump libs Peter MacDonald VC's, initial shared libs, ptys, SLS. Jonathan Magid Site admin for Sunsite Mike O'Reilly term Vince Skahan Mailpak/Newspak under SLS Rick Sladkey TCP/IP. Miquel van Smoorenburg Sysvinit Richard Stallman Has anyone not heard of GNU. Ted So's Serial, central SLS archive adm Linus Benedict Torvalds kernel, attitude. Andrew Tanenbaum Injected wonder, in a previous life. Lars Wirzenius FAQ, poop on Linus Jim Winstead Jr. Rootdisk Matt D Walsh Linux DOC project Eric Youngdale SCSI devices drives, iso9660 fs, DLL libs, Orest Zabrowski X11, need I say more.