Hall of Fame (2004.11.02 21:01:01)

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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.
The first company in the world to offer commercial virtual server
hosting, as early as Sept. 2001.

• providing a dual Pentium 1GHz III for development. (2003-)

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

• providing two Linux-VServers (vserver.13thfloor.at).
• sponsoring kernel development.
• 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. (2004)

(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 P 200MHz MMX for development. (2003-2004)

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

Tomer Horn

• using Linux-Vservers
• donating money

OpenHosting (Gregory Trubetskoy)

OpenHosting, Inc. is an innovative hosting company based in Vienna, VA, USA,
and providing more affordable, scalable, manageable and secure hosting solutions by
taking advantage of the latest technologies such as virtualization,
load-balancing and clustering. OpenHosting's solutions are based around
OpenVPS, an open source product in turn based on Linux VServer.

• using Linux-Vservers
• sponsoring kernel development

Lycos, France

• providing a quad Pentium III Xeon for SMP testing. (2004-2005)

complete with remote serial console and reset.

• testing and debugging 2.6/1.9.x versions
• sponsoring kernel development

Mosaix Communications, Inc. (Christian Hergert)

Mosaix Communications, Inc. Founded in Dec 2002, Seattle, WA, USA
providing Enhanced Private Network solutions which can significantly
lower your ongoing IT costs, enhance security, connect your distributed
enterprise, and provide unprecedented visibility and control of your
network environment.

Developing their next-generation network services based on Linux-VServer.

• donating money for ngnet development

Mark 'Schani' Probst (AT)

make sure to check out his [cool stuff]

• providing an Alpha PC 64 for testing. (2005-)

Marc E. Fiuczynski (US)

• providing an HT P4 for development (2005-)

including remote console (IBM)

Krzysztof Wilczynski (PL)

• donating a replacement harddisk
• providing virtual coffee to the developers :]

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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.

Björn Steinbrink (DE)

(Rahden, NEN of Northrhine-Westphalia)

• ngnet kernel development
• architectural design, code cleanup, bug hunting
• helping with the kernel cross compiling

default configs.

Benedikt Böhm (DE)

• alternative userspace implementation
• driving non-legacy development
• excellent gentoo support

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 Maintainers

Micah Anderson (US)

• maintaining up-to-date debian patches and userspace packages

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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

• 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.

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

Veit Wahlich (DE)

• security auditing linux-vserver
• reporting yet another proc issue

Olivier Poitrey (FR)

• debugging several nfs related xid issues
• reporting and debugging a lot of other issues
• performance testing and feedback

Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (SE)

• helping with util-vserver and patching fs tools
• constantly providing useful information and

helping folks out on the irc channel

James Boddington (AU)

• debugging und testing the alpha port (vs2.0)

kernel and tools (including dietlibc)

• testing filesystem xid tagging and attributes
• testing COW link breaking
• testing vroot devices

Jan Rekorajski (PL)

• testing xid tagging, barrier and iunlink on

all currently supported fs (ext2/3,xfs,reiserfs)

Kai Neubecker (DE)

• spotting and reporting the first vs2.0 bug

(missing setup of monolithic vroot device)

Chuck Gorish (US)

(from SBBSNet, Inc)

• helping to track down a nasty issue with vs2.x
• testing devel kernels

Serge Hallyn (US), IBM LTC.

• helping with the 2.6.14 port and iattr cleanup

Grzegorz Nosek (PL)

• tracking down a tricky vs2.x procfs issue

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

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