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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN"
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<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:lang="en">
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<info>
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<title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
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<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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&tm-attrib.freebsd;
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&tm-attrib.sun;
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&tm-attrib.general;
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</legalnotice>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo>
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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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</abstract>
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</info>
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<sect1 xml:id="donors">
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<title>Donors Gallery</title>
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<note>
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<para>As of 2010, the following section is several years
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out-of-date. Donations from the past several years appear
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<link
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xlink:href="&url.base;/donations/donors.html">here</link>.</para>
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</note>
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<para>The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and
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would 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
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possible for the FreeBSD Project to build a new central
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server machine, which has replaced <systemitem
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class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem> 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.email; and his employer, <link
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xlink:href="http://www.hemi.com/"> Hemisphere
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Online</link>, donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6)
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200MHz CPU</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
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Computers</link> 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
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<link xlink:href="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet
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Communications</link> donated a <emphasis>Kingston
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ethernet controller.</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Jack O'Neill
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<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
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<link xlink:href="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda
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Networks</link> donated
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<emphasis>128MB of memory</emphasis>, a
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<emphasis>4 Gb disk drive and the
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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.email;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue
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Mountain Arts</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue
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Technology Corporation</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.sef.email;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.gta.com/">Global
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Technology Associates, Inc</link></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
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<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.email;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Kenneth P. Stox
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<email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of <link
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xlink:href="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary
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Landscape, LLC.</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk
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<email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</link> of
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Japan (a portion of the profits from sales of their
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various FreeBSD CDROMs).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki
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Shuppan Publishing Co.</link> donated a portion of
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their profits from
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<emphasis>Hajimete no FreeBSD</emphasis> (FreeBSD,
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Getting started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86
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projects.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII
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Corp.</link> donated a portion of their profits from
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several FreeBSD-related books to the FreeBSD
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project.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa
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Electric Corp</link> has generously donated
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significant funding to the FreeBSD project.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
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Solutions</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens
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AG</link> 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
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<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
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and other donations of hardware resources.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link
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xlink:href="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</link>
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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, AlphaServer
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2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz Personal
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Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations, and more!
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These machines are used for release engineering, package
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building, SMP development, and general development on
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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
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68 GB file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an
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ATM switch for 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
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drive 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>
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contributed his floppy tape streamer for experimental
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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
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&a.wilko.email;, provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02
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tape drives in order to improve the
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<filename>wt</filename> driver.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Ernst Winter (<link
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xlink:href="http://berklix.org/ewinter/">Deceased</link>)
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contributed a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This
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will hopefully increase the pressure for rewriting the
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floppy disk driver.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
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Technologies</link> sent one each of their DC-390,
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DC-390U and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter
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cards for regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers
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with their cards. They are also to be applauded for
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making driver sources for free operating systems
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available from their FTP server <uri
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xlink:href="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/</uri>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a Symbios
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Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
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including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with
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Ultra-2 and LVD support, and the latest programming
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manual with information on how to safely use the
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advanced features of the latest Symbios SCSI chips.
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Thanks a lot!</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>&a.kuku.email; donated an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi
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CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver 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
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four various ATM PCI cards in order to help increase
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support of these cards as well as help support the
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development effort of the netatm ATM stack.</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><link
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xlink:href="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</link>
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(formerly Walnut Creek CDROM) has donated almost more
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than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
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section of the <link
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xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD
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Handbook</link> for more details). In particular, we
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would like to thank them for the original hardware used
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for <systemitem
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class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>,
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our primary development machine, and for <systemitem
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class="fqdomainname">thud.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>, a
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testing and build box. We are also indebted to them for
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funding various contributors over the years and
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providing us with unrestricted use of their T1
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connection to the Internet.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The <link
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xlink:href="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
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business GmbH, Dresden</link> has been patiently
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supporting &a.joerg.email; who has often preferred
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FreeBSD work over paid work, and used to fall back to
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their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet connection
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whenever his private connection became too slow or flaky
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to work with it...</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley
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Software Design, Inc.</link> has contributed their DOS
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emulator code to the remaining BSD world, which is used
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in the <emphasis>doscmd</emphasis> command.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml: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
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members are 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>
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<sect1 xml: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
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during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
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efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
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order:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.corealumni;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml: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
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team during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
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efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
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order:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.develalumni;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="contrib-portmgralumni">
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<title>Ports Management Team Alumni</title>
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<indexterm><primary>portmgr team</primary></indexterm>
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<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD portmgr
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team during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
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efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
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order:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.portmgralumni;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="contrib-develinmemoriam">
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<title>Development Team: In Memoriam</title>
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<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
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<para>During the many years that the FreeBSD Project has been in
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existence, sadly, some of our developers have passed away.
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Here are some remembrances.</para>
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<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order of their
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passing:</emphasis></para>
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&contrib.develinmemoriam;
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml: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.
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Jolitz's 386BSD release 0.1, though almost none of the original
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386BSD specific code remains. This software has been
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essentially re-implemented from the 4.4BSD-Lite release provided
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by the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at the University
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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
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thank all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their
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work.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml: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 xml: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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</sect1>
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<index/>
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