425401b4b4
- Remove deprecated listings of teams (since they were moved to [1] and
they are maintained at administration [2]):
- Core Team (section 2)
- Other FreeBSD Teams, like The FreeBSD Documentation Engineering Team,
The FreeBSD Port Management Team, and so on (section 3)
- Miscellaneous Hats, like The FreeBSD Bugmeisters and GNATS admins,
The FreeBSD Security Officers, and so on (section 4)
- FreeBSD Release Engineering Teams, like Primary FreeBSD Release
Engineering Team, AMD64 Release Engineering Team, and so on
(section 5)
- The FreeBSD Documentation Project, like Handbook Editor,
FAQ Editor, and so on (section 7)
- Who is Responsible for What, like CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator,
Postmaster, and so on (section 8)
- Move Adam Weinberger (adamw@) back to active developers
- Fix ordering of rnolan@ and sbruno@
- Add wes@ and imp@ to the Core Team Alumni
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-doc/2007-March/015350.html
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/administration.html
Discussed with: joel, remko (section 7), ache (section 8)
Reviewed by: joel
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
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<title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<abstract>
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<para>This article lists individuals and organizations who have
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made a contribution to FreeBSD.</para>
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<sect1 id="donors">
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<title>Donors Gallery</title>
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<para>The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would
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like to publicly thank them here!</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Contributors to the central server
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project:</emphasis></para>
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<para>The following individuals and businesses made it possible for
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the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine, which
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has replaced <hostid role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid> at
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one point, by donating the following items:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.mbarkah; and his employer, <ulink
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url="http://www.hemi.com/"> Hemisphere Online</ulink>,
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donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPU</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
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Computers</ulink> donated a <emphasis>Tyan 1662
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motherboard</emphasis>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Joe McGuckin <email>joe@via.net</email> of <ulink
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url="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet Communications</ulink> donated
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a <emphasis>Kingston ethernet controller.</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Jack O'Neill <email>jack@diamond.xtalwind.net</email>
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donated an <emphasis>NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
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card</emphasis>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Ulf Zimmermann <email>ulf@Alameda.net</email> of <ulink
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url="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda Networks</ulink> donated
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<emphasis>128MB of memory</emphasis>, a <emphasis>4 Gb disk
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drive and the case.</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Direct funding:</emphasis></para>
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<para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
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contributed direct funding to the project:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Annelise Anderson
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<email>ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.dillon;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue Mountain
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Arts</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue Technology
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Corporation</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.sef;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.gta.com/">Global Technology
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Associates, Inc</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Don Scott Wilde</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Gianmarco Giovannelli
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<email>gmarco@masternet.it</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Josef C. Grosch <email>joeg@truenorth.org</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Robert T. Morris</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.chuckr;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Kenneth P. Stox <email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of
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<ulink url="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary Landscape,
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LLC.</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk <email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</ulink> of Japan
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(a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD
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CDROMs).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki Shuppan
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Publishing Co.</ulink> donated a portion of their profits from
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<emphasis>Hajimete no FreeBSD</emphasis> (FreeBSD, Getting
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started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII Corp.</ulink>
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donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related
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books to the FreeBSD project.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa Electric
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Corp</ulink> has generously donated significant funding to the
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FreeBSD project.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
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Solutions</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens AG</ulink>
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via Andre Albsmeier
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<email>andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Chris Silva <email>ras@interaccess.com</email></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Hardware contributors:</emphasis></para>
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<para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
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contributed hardware for testing and device driver
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development/support:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
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486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
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development work, to say nothing of the network access and other
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donations of hardware resources.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</ulink>
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has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD
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Project. Among the many generous donations are 4
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AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20,
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AlphaServer 2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz
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Personal Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations,
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and more! These machines are used for release
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engineering, package building, SMP development, and general
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development on the Alpha architecture.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB
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file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for
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debugging the diskless code.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive
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currently used in freefall.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Chuck Robey <email>chuckr@glue.umd.edu</email> contributed
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his floppy tape streamer for experimental work.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Larry Altneu <email>larry@ALR.COM</email>, and &a.wilko;,
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provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to
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improve the <devicename>wt</devicename> driver.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Ernst Winter <email>ewinter@lobo.muc.de</email> contributed
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a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully
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increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
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Technologies</ulink> sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U
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and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for
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regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards.
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They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free
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operating systems available from their FTP server <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/"></ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a
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Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
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including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2
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and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with
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information on how to safely use the advanced features of the
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latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot!</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Christoph Kukulies <email>kuku@FreeBSD.org</email> donated
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an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver
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development.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Mike Tancsa <email>mike@sentex.ca</email> donated four various
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ATM PCI cards in order to help increase support of these cards as
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well as help support the development effort of the netatm ATM
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stack.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Special contributors:</emphasis></para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</ulink> (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM)
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has donated almost more than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
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section of the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</ulink> for more details).
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In particular, we would like to thank them for the original
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hardware used for <hostid
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role="fqdn">freefall.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, our primary
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development machine, and for <hostid
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role="fqdn">thud.FreeBSD.org</hostid>, a testing and build
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box. We are also indebted to them for funding various
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contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted
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use of their T1 connection to the Internet.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The <ulink url="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
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business GmbH, Dresden</ulink> has been patiently supporting
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&a.joerg; who has often preferred FreeBSD work over paid work, and
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used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet
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connection whenever his private connection became too slow or
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flaky to work with it...</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley Software Design,
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Inc.</ulink> has contributed their DOS emulator code to the
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remaining BSD world, which is used in the
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<emphasis>doscmd</emphasis> command.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="staff-committers">
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<title>The FreeBSD Developers</title>
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<para>These are the people who have commit privileges and do the
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engineering work on the FreeBSD source tree. All core team members are
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also developers.</para>
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<para>(in alphabetical order by last name):</para>
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&contrib.committers;
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<sect1 id="contrib-corealumni">
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<title>Core Team Alumni</title>
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<indexterm><primary>core team</primary></indexterm>
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<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD core team during
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the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the
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service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.corealumni;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="contrib-develalumni">
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<title>Development Team Alumni</title>
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<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
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<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD development team
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during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts
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in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.develalumni;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="contrib-derived">
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<title>Derived Software Contributors</title>
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<para>This software was originally derived from William F. Jolitz's 386BSD
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release 0.1, though almost none of the original 386BSD specific code
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remains. This software has been essentially re-implemented from the
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4.4BSD-Lite release provided by the Computer Science Research Group
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(CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic
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contributors.</para>
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<para>There are also portions of NetBSD and OpenBSD that have been
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integrated into FreeBSD as well, and we would therefore like to thank
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all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their work.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="contrib-additional">
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<title>Additional FreeBSD Contributors</title>
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<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
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&contrib.additional;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="contrib-386bsd">
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<title>386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contributors</title>
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<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
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&contrib.386bsd;
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