Hall of Fame (2003.12.05 12:01:09)

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We want to thank ... for ... (in no particular order)

Sponsors and Donations

Rose Web Services L.L.C.

Founded in April 2001, located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA,
RoseHosting provides all kinds of hosting solutions, especially
Virtual Dedicated Servers, based on Linux-VServer Technology.

• providing a dual Pentium 1GHz III for development.

(1.5 GB RAM, 2x 80 GB HDDs RAID1, unlimitted traffic)

• providing a Linux-VServer (vserver.13thfloor.at).
• sponsoring kernel development in July/August 2003.
• using Linux-VServers

Amoebasoft (Bill Schaub)

Amoebasoft is a small private company working on a rack mount server
appliance with a clean configuration interface and integrated
Linux-vserver support. We formerly developed 3rd party objects for
Sun One ASP (formerly known as chilisoft). our site will be updated
to reflect our new company focus soon.

• providing a Sun Ultra 10 for development.

(440 Mhz UltraSPARCIIi, 256MB RAM, 8GB HDD, unlimitted traffic)

• reporting and testing several quota hash issues
• using Linux-VServers

Jon Bendtsen (DK)

• providing a dual Pentium 200MHz MMX for development.

complete with remote serial console and reset

(using ssh key limited commands)

• using Linux-VServers and hanging around

Matt Ayres

TekTonic Network Solutions

• testing many development versions for stability
• enhancing and or requesting useful features
• sponsoring kernel development

Fabio Corneti

• using Linux-Vservers
• donating money

Joris Bontje (NL)

• helping with vserver debugging (quota)
• donating money

John Scott

• using Linux-Vservers
• testing on x86-64
• donating money

Cathy Sarisky

Acorn Hosting

• using Linux-Vservers
• donating money

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VServer Developers

Herbert Pötzl (AT)

(Laaben/Pama, in the middle of nowhere)

VServer Project Leader, Kernel Hacker, Quota guy.

• well, what would you like to thank me for? (Herbert)

Enrico Scholz (DE)

(Chemnitz?)

Creator of util-vserver the 'new' vserver tools

• having an eye on all the security aspects.
• maintaining util-vserver and keeping it up with

the actual kernel developments.

Jacques Gelinas (CA), Solucorp

VServer Project Leader till November 2003, Inventor and
Main Developer of Linux-VServer, author of Linuxconf.

• providing a Linux-VServer (linux-vserver.org)
• providing the main domain (linux-vserver.org)
• all the work and development done with VServer
• still working and developing Linux-VServer

Sam Vilain (NZ)

(Wellington)

Developer of the Immutable Linkage (Invert), and
per-vserver TBF CPU scheduling for O(1) Schedulers.

• all the work and development done with VServer
• still working and developing Linux-VServer

Simon Garner ()

• deveoping the vskel stuff and testing vserver

Mark Lawrence (AU)

• developing vserver-copy and newvserver-debian

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VServer Staff

Martin List-Petersen (IE)

• maintaining and providing the VServer mailing list

Paul Sladen (UK)

(Beeston, Nottingham)

• tracking the history of vserver for many years
• one of the best FAQs for vserver issues
• bitching at development to keep their minds sharp

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Honorable Mentions

Nathan Faber ()

• doing a lot of detailed SMP vserver debugging
• compiling and testing hundreds of vserver kernels

Jonathan Sambrook (UK), DesignerServers?

(Manchester?)

• hunting down at least one vserver SMP race (uts_sem).
• releasing kernel patches used at DesignerServers?
• coding up perl wrappers for vserver syscall.
• heavy testing of Linux-VServer.

Oliver Seufer (DE)

• local loopback changes in development series.

Alec Thomas (AU)

• testing Linux-VServer on Sparc64.

Jan Zuchhold (DE)

(Frankfurt/Main)

• hunting down a bug in tcp_addr_conflict().

Joris Bontje (NL)

• helping to debug the hard to reproduce

'quotaoff hangs machine' issues.

Björn Steinbrink (DE)

• helping with the kernel cross compiling

default configs.

Markus Müller (DE)

(from [GeNUA])

• reporting the chmod() security issue which

allowed to escape the chroot()

Ryan Hofschneider (US)

• proof reading linux-vserver papers
• beta testing experimental patches

... and all we forgot so far, for forgiving us!
please add yourself if appropriate.