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== Developers ==
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'''We want to thank ... for ...''' ''(in no particular order)''
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! style="width: 25%" | Herbert Pötzl
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|
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* VServer project leader
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* Kernel Hacker
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|-
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! Enrico Scholz
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|
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* Creator of util-vserver the 'new' vserver tools
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* having an eye on all the security aspects.
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* maintaining util-vserver and keeping it up with the actual kernel developments.  
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|-
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! Björn Steinbrink
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|
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* ngnet kernel development
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* architectural design, code cleanup, bug hunting
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* helping with the kernel cross compiling
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* default configs
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|-
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! Benedikt Böhm
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|
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* alternative userspace implementation
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* driving non-legacy development
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* excellent gentoo support
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|-
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! Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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|
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* improving util-vserver and patching fs tools
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* working on the vserver kernel, testing
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* constantly providing useful information and
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* helping folks out on the irc channel
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|}
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== Distribution Maintainers ==
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== Sponsors & Donations ==
  
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
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{| class="wikitable" style="width: 97%"
! style="width: 25%" | Micah Anderson
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! style="width: 25%" | [http://www.dreamhost.com/ DreamHost] [USA]
| Debian patches & packages
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(Dallas Kashuba)
 +
| founded in 1997, DreamHost is an environmentally-friendly and employee owned hosting company, which was among the first to offer scalable Linux-VServer hosting options. On-the-fly VPS resource allocation ensures the absolute best experience and pricing to fit any budget, and a custom-built web control panel provides easy control over every aspect of the server configuration.
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* sponsoring kernel development hardware
 +
* sponsoring vs2.4 stabilization
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 
|-
 
|-
! Daniel Hokka Zakkrisson
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! [http://lihas.de LiHAS] [DE]
| Fedora patches & packages
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(Adrian Reyer)
 +
| [http://lihas.de LiHAS] is using Linux-VServer on single servers and HA-Clusters to provide secure and stable solutions tailored to individual use.
 +
* sponsoring the 3.9.x port
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 
|-
 
|-
! Benedikt Böhm
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! [http://domaintechnik.at Domaintechnik.at, Ledl.net GmbH] [AT]
| Gentoo patches & ebuilds
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| Domaintechnik was founded in 1999 and is an Austrian [http://www.domaintechnik.at/ Domain] and [http://www.domaintechnik.at/hosting/hosting-server.html Hosting provider] with  own hosting infrastructure, Ripe-LIR, AS 25575, Icann accredited registrar, high quality support from experienced technical staff.
 +
Offering [http://www.domaintechnik.at/hosting/root-server.html Linux-VServer Hosting], Shared Web Hosting on High End Dell Hardware, Dual-Processor-Systems.
 +
* providing Linux-VServer guest space on a Xeon™ Host with Gigabit Ethernet connection (2005-)
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 
|-
 
|-
! Herbert Pötzl
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! [http://www.mailasail.com/ MailASail Satellite Communications] [UK]
| Mandrake patches & packages
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| Experts in [http://www.mailasail.com/Shop/Iridium-Phones Iridium phones], [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/Inmarsat-FleetBroadband Inmarsat FleetBroadband], and [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/Thuraya Thuraya] equipment.
|}
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Specialist suppliers of the [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/Iridium-9555 Iridium 9555 satellite phone], fixed install [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/Iridium-Compact-Fixed-Mount Iridium 9522P satellite phone], [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/FleetBroadband-FB150 Inmarsat FleetBroadband FB150], [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/FleetBroadband-FB250 FB250], and [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/FleetBroadband-FB500 FB500] broadband Internet for marine use. Great rates on [http://www.mailasail.com/Communication/Iridium-Airtime Irdium airtime plans].
  
 +
* sponsoring hardware for the lead kernel developer (aka. making Bertl happy :)
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
|-
 +
! [http://www.checon.net Checon EDV] [DE]
 +
(Claus Herwig)
 +
| Checon EDV is a small company run by Claus Herwig, located in Munich, Germany. They provide domain registration, server administration, individual webhosting and other IT consulting services.
  
== Sponsors & Donations ==
+
* sponsoring hardware for the lead kernel developer (aka. making Bertl happy :)
 +
* using Linux-VServer for customers and private servers since 2005
 +
|-
 +
! [http://unilogic.nl Unilogic B.V.] [NL]
 +
(Stefan Kleijkers)
 +
| Unilogic is a company based in the souths of the Netherlands and specialized in it for primary schools. We are running a large fiber to the school project. We have our own datacenter in Sittard (The Netherlands) and have about 300 schools connected with fiber to our datacenter. All services for the schools are provided from our datacenter and are accessed over the fiber, some of the services we provide are: desktop management, server capacity (with Linux-VServer), storage, VoIP, IP television, backup.
  
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
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* sponsoring kernel development (stable mainline)
! style="width: 25%" | Rose Web Services L.L.C.
+
* using Linux-VServer
| 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.
+
|-
 +
! [http://www.rosehosting.com Rose Web Services L.L.C.]
 +
| Founded in April 2001, located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, RoseHosting provides all kinds of hosting solutions, including [http://www.rosehosting.com Linux VPS hosting], based on Linux-VServer Technology.
  
 
The first company in the world to offer commercial virtual server  
 
The first company in the world to offer commercial virtual server  
 
hosting, as early as Sept. 2001.
 
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)  
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* providing a dual Pentium 1GHz III for development. (2003-2008) (1.5 GB RAM, 2x 80 GB HDDs RAID1, unlimitted traffic)  
* providing two Linux-VServers (vserver.13thfloor.at).
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* providing two Linux-VServer Guests (vserver.13thfloor.at).
 
* sponsoring kernel development.
 
* sponsoring kernel development.
 
* using Linux-VServers
 
* using Linux-VServers
 
|-
 
|-
! Amoebasoft (Bill Schaub)
+
! [http://www.ifie.com IFIE GmbH]
 +
| The I.F.I.E. Ingenieurbüro für innovative Entwicklungen GmbH is a small company located in Berlin, Germany, using Linux-VServer for customer hosting and own development projects.
 +
 
 +
* providing AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core (64bit), 4.0GB RAM, 2x500G HDDs RAID1 for our web services (apache, mysql, php, mail)
 +
* 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.
 
| 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)  
 
* providing a Sun Ultra 10 for development. (2004) (440 Mhz UltraSPARCIIi, 256MB RAM, 8GB HDD, unlimitted traffic)  
 
* reporting and testing several quota hash issues
 
* reporting and testing several quota hash issues
 +
* using Linux-VServers
 +
|-
 +
! [http://www.newthinking-communications.de newthinking communications GmbH]
 +
| newthinking communications is a small company located in Berlin, Germany, using Linux-VServer for customer hosting and own projects.
 +
 +
* providing an AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core, 4G RAM, 2x300G HDD for our web services (www, ftp, mail)
 
* using Linux-VServers
 
* using Linux-VServers
 
|-
 
|-
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* using Linux-VServers and hanging around
 
* using Linux-VServers and hanging around
 
|-
 
|-
! Matt Ayres (TekTonic Network Solutions)
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! Matt Ayres  
 +
(TekTonic Network Solutions)
 
|
 
|
 
* testing many development versions for stability
 
* testing many development versions for stability
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* donating money
 
* donating money
 
|-
 
|-
! Joris Bontje
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! Joris Bontje [NL]
 
|
 
|
 
* helping with vserver debugging (quota)
 
* helping with vserver debugging (quota)
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* donating money
 
* donating money
 
|-
 
|-
! Cathy Sarisky (Acorn Hosting)
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! Cathy Sarisky  
 +
(Acorn Hosting)
 
|
 
|
 
* using Linux-Vservers
 
* using Linux-Vservers
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* donating money
 
* donating money
 
|-
 
|-
! OpenHosting (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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! [http://www.openhosting.com/ OpenHosting Inc.]
 +
(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.
 
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.
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* sponsoring kernel development
 
* sponsoring kernel development
 
|-
 
|-
! Lycos, France
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! [http://www.lycos-vds.com Lycos], France
 
|
 
|
 
* providing a quad Pentium III Xeon for SMP testing. (2004-2005) complete with remote serial console and reset.  
 
* providing a quad Pentium III Xeon for SMP testing. (2004-2005) complete with remote serial console and reset.  
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* sponsoring kernel development
 
* sponsoring kernel development
 
|-
 
|-
! Mosaix Communications, Inc. (Christian Hergert)
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! 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.
 
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.
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* donating money for ngnet development
 
* donating money for ngnet development
 
|-
 
|-
! Mark 'Schani' Probst
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! Mark 'Schani' Probst [AT]
 
|
 
|
 
* providing an Alpha PC 64 for testing. (2005-)
 
* providing an Alpha PC 64 for testing. (2005-)
 
|-
 
|-
! Marc E. Fiuczynski
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! Marc E. Fiuczynski [US]
 
|
 
|
* providing an HT P4 for development (2005)
+
* providing an HT P4 for development including remote console (IBM) (2005)
* including remote console (IBM)  
+
 
|-
 
|-
! Krzysztof Wilczynski
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! Krzysztof Wilczynski [PL]
 
|
 
|
 
* donating a replacement harddisk  
 
* donating a replacement harddisk  
 
* providing virtual coffee to the developers :]
 
* providing virtual coffee to the developers :]
 
|-
 
|-
! Guenther Fuchs
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! Guenther Fuchs [AT]
 
|
 
|
* providing the linux-vserver.at domain
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* providing the linux-vserver.at domain (-2008)
 
* constantly updating the wiki
 
* constantly updating the wiki
 
|-
 
|-
! Jan Prunk
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! Jan Prunk [SI]
 
|
 
|
 
* using Linux-VServer
 
* using Linux-VServer
 
* donating money
 
* donating money
 +
|-
 +
! [http://modulis.ca Modulis] [CA]
 +
(Adrien Laurent)
 +
|
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* donating money
 +
|-
 +
! [http://www.aqueos.com/ AQUEOS] [FR]
 +
(Ghislain Adnet)
 +
| founded in 2004, AQUEOS is a company that offers hosting and server management. We use Linux-VServer to help manage hardware independant server farms for hosting.
 +
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* sponsoring kernel development
 +
|-
 +
! [http://psand.net/ Psand] [UK]
 +
(Ben Green)
 +
|
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* donating money
 +
|-
 +
! Daniel Lange [DE]
 +
|
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* donating money
 +
|-
 +
! Roman Veselý [CZ]
 +
|
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* donating money
 +
|-
 +
! [http://www.sonassihosting.com Sonassi Hosting] [UK]
 +
(Benjamin Lessani)
 +
|
 +
* using Linux-VServer
 +
* donating money
 +
|}
 +
 +
== Developers, Maintainers and Staff ==
 +
 +
''note:'' this does not include the [[Developers|Currently Active Developers]].
 +
 +
 +
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 97%"
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! style="width: 25%" | Jacques Gelinas [CA]
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(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)
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* all the work and development done with VServer
 +
|-
 +
! Sam Vilain [NZ]
 +
(Wellington)
 +
|
 +
Developer of the Immutable Linkage (Invert), and
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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
 +
|
 +
*  developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
 +
|-
 +
! Mark Lawrence [AU]
 +
|
 +
*  developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
 +
|-
 +
! Micah Anderson [US]
 +
|
 +
*  maintaining up-to-date debian patches and userspace packages
 +
|-
 +
! Bastian Blank [DE]
 +
|
 +
*  integrating debian Linux-VServer kernels
 +
|-
 +
! James Boddington [AU]
 +
|
 +
* debugging und testing alpha/x86/sparc64
 +
* testing kernel and tools (including dietlibc)
 +
* testing filesystem xid tagging and attributes
 +
* testing COW link breaking and vroot
 +
|-
 +
! Martin List-Petersen [IE]
 +
|
 +
*  maintaining and providing the VServer mailing list
 +
|-
 +
! Paul Sladen [UK]
 +
|
 +
(Beeston, Nottingham)
 +
 +
* tracking the history of vserver for many years
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* one of the best FAQs for vserver issues
 +
* bitching at development to keep their minds sharp
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
== Honorable Mentions ==
 
== Honorable Mentions ==
  
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{| class="wikitable" style="width: 97%"
! style="width: 25%" | Nathan Faber ()
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! style="width: 25%" | Nathan Faber
 
|
 
|
 
* doing a lot of detailed SMP vserver debugging
 
* doing a lot of detailed SMP vserver debugging
 
* compiling and testing hundreds of vserver kernels
 
* compiling and testing hundreds of vserver kernels
 
|-
 
|-
! Jonathan Sambrook, DesignerServers
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! Jonathan Sambrook
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(DesignerServers)
 
|
 
|
 
* hunting down at least one vserver SMP race (uts_sem).
 
* hunting down at least one vserver SMP race (uts_sem).
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* heavy testing of Linux-VServer.
 
* heavy testing of Linux-VServer.
 
|-
 
|-
! Oliver Seufer
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! Oliver Seufer [DE]
 
|
 
|
 
* local loopback changes in development series.
 
* local loopback changes in development series.
 
|-
 
|-
! Alec Thomas
+
! Alec Thomas [AU]
 
|
 
|
 
* testing Linux-VServer on Sparc64.
 
* testing Linux-VServer on Sparc64.
 
|-
 
|-
! Jan Zuchhold
+
! Jan Zuchhold [DE]
 
|
 
|
 
* hunting down a bug in tcp_addr_conflict().
 
* hunting down a bug in tcp_addr_conflict().
 
|-
 
|-
! Joris Bontje
+
! Joris Bontje [NL]
 
|
 
|
 
* helping to debug the hard to reproduce
 
* helping to debug the hard to reproduce
 
* 'quotaoff hangs machine' issues.  
 
* 'quotaoff hangs machine' issues.  
 
|-
 
|-
! Markus Müller
+
! Markus Müller [DE]
 +
(GeNUA)
 
|
 
|
* reporting the chmod() security issue which
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* reporting the chmod() security issue which allowed to escape the chroot()  
* allowed to escape the chroot()  
+
 
|-
 
|-
! Ryan Hofschneider
+
! Ryan Hofschneider [US]
 
|
 
|
 
* proof reading linux-vserver papers  
 
* proof reading linux-vserver papers  
 
* beta testing experimental patches
 
* beta testing experimental patches
 
|-
 
|-
! Veit Wahlich
+
! Veit Wahlich [DE]
 
|
 
|
 
* security auditing linux-vserver
 
* security auditing linux-vserver
 
* reporting yet another proc issue
 
* reporting yet another proc issue
 
|-
 
|-
! Olivier Poitrey
+
! Olivier Poitrey [FR]
 
|
 
|
 
* debugging several nfs related xid issues
 
* debugging several nfs related xid issues
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* performance testing and feedback
 
* performance testing and feedback
 
|-
 
|-
! James Boddington
+
! Jan Rekorajski [PL]
|
+
* 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
+
 
|
 
|
 
* testing xid tagging, barrier and iunlink on  
 
* testing xid tagging, barrier and iunlink on  
 
* all currently supported fs (ext2/3,xfs,reiserfs)  
 
* all currently supported fs (ext2/3,xfs,reiserfs)  
 
|-
 
|-
! Kai Neubecker
+
! Kai Neubecker [DE]
 
|
 
|
 
* spotting and reporting the first vs2.0 bug (missing setup of monolithic vroot device)  
 
* spotting and reporting the first vs2.0 bug (missing setup of monolithic vroot device)  
 
|-
 
|-
! Chuck Gorish, SBBSNet, Inc
+
! Chuck Gorish [US]
 +
(SBBSNet, Inc)
 
|
 
|
 
* helping to track down a nasty issue with vs2.x
 
* helping to track down a nasty issue with vs2.x
 
* testing devel kernels
 
* testing devel kernels
 
|-
 
|-
! Serge Hallyn, IBM LTC.
+
! Serge Hallyn [US]
 +
(IBM LTC.)
 
|
 
|
 
* helping with the 2.6.14 port and iattr cleanup
 
* helping with the 2.6.14 port and iattr cleanup
 
|-
 
|-
! Grzegorz Nosek
+
! Grzegorz Nosek [PL]
 
|
 
|
 
* tracking down a tricky vs2.x procfs issue  
 
* tracking down a tricky vs2.x procfs issue  
 
|-
 
|-
! Martin Koniczek
+
! Martin Koniczek [DE]
 
|
 
|
 
* isolating a nasty issue with the page fault array
 
* isolating a nasty issue with the page fault array
 
|-
 
|-
! Rich Estill
+
! Rich Estill [US]
 
|
 
|
 
* building the Fedora Core 4 kernels and util-vserver packages on x86_64
 
* building the Fedora Core 4 kernels and util-vserver packages on x86_64
 +
|-
 +
! Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [PL]
 +
|
 +
* tracking down a tricky posix timer issue in vs2.x
 
|}
 
|}
 +
 +
'''... and all we forgot so far, for forgiving us!'''
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please add yourself if appropriate.
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[[Category:Community]]

Revision as of 21:41, 4 June 2013

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

Sponsors & Donations

DreamHost [USA]

(Dallas Kashuba)

founded in 1997, DreamHost is an environmentally-friendly and employee owned hosting company, which was among the first to offer scalable Linux-VServer hosting options. On-the-fly VPS resource allocation ensures the absolute best experience and pricing to fit any budget, and a custom-built web control panel provides easy control over every aspect of the server configuration.
  • sponsoring kernel development hardware
  • sponsoring vs2.4 stabilization
  • using Linux-VServer
LiHAS [DE]

(Adrian Reyer)

LiHAS is using Linux-VServer on single servers and HA-Clusters to provide secure and stable solutions tailored to individual use.
  • sponsoring the 3.9.x port
  • using Linux-VServer
Domaintechnik.at, Ledl.net GmbH [AT] Domaintechnik was founded in 1999 and is an Austrian Domain and Hosting provider with own hosting infrastructure, Ripe-LIR, AS 25575, Icann accredited registrar, high quality support from experienced technical staff.

Offering Linux-VServer Hosting, Shared Web Hosting on High End Dell Hardware, Dual-Processor-Systems.

  • providing Linux-VServer guest space on a Xeon™ Host with Gigabit Ethernet connection (2005-)
  • using Linux-VServer
MailASail Satellite Communications [UK] Experts in Iridium phones, Inmarsat FleetBroadband, and Thuraya equipment.

Specialist suppliers of the Iridium 9555 satellite phone, fixed install Iridium 9522P satellite phone, Inmarsat FleetBroadband FB150, FB250, and FB500 broadband Internet for marine use. Great rates on Irdium airtime plans.

  • sponsoring hardware for the lead kernel developer (aka. making Bertl happy :)
  • using Linux-VServer
Checon EDV [DE]

(Claus Herwig)

Checon EDV is a small company run by Claus Herwig, located in Munich, Germany. They provide domain registration, server administration, individual webhosting and other IT consulting services.
  • sponsoring hardware for the lead kernel developer (aka. making Bertl happy :)
  • using Linux-VServer for customers and private servers since 2005
Unilogic B.V. [NL]

(Stefan Kleijkers)

Unilogic is a company based in the souths of the Netherlands and specialized in it for primary schools. We are running a large fiber to the school project. We have our own datacenter in Sittard (The Netherlands) and have about 300 schools connected with fiber to our datacenter. All services for the schools are provided from our datacenter and are accessed over the fiber, some of the services we provide are: desktop management, server capacity (with Linux-VServer), storage, VoIP, IP television, backup.
  • sponsoring kernel development (stable mainline)
  • using Linux-VServer
Rose Web Services L.L.C. Founded in April 2001, located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, RoseHosting provides all kinds of hosting solutions, including Linux VPS hosting, 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. (2003-2008) (1.5 GB RAM, 2x 80 GB HDDs RAID1, unlimitted traffic)
  • providing two Linux-VServer Guests (vserver.13thfloor.at).
  • sponsoring kernel development.
  • using Linux-VServers
IFIE GmbH The I.F.I.E. Ingenieurbüro für innovative Entwicklungen GmbH is a small company located in Berlin, Germany, using Linux-VServer for customer hosting and own development projects.
  • providing AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core (64bit), 4.0GB RAM, 2x500G HDDs RAID1 for our web services (apache, mysql, php, mail)
  • 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
newthinking communications GmbH newthinking communications is a small company located in Berlin, Germany, using Linux-VServer for customer hosting and own projects.
  • providing an AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core, 4G RAM, 2x300G HDD for our web services (www, ftp, mail)
  • using Linux-VServers
Jon Bendtsen
  • 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 Inc.

(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]
  • providing an Alpha PC 64 for testing. (2005-)
Marc E. Fiuczynski [US]
  • providing an HT P4 for development including remote console (IBM) (2005)
Krzysztof Wilczynski [PL]
  • donating a replacement harddisk
  • providing virtual coffee to the developers :]
Guenther Fuchs [AT]
  • providing the linux-vserver.at domain (-2008)
  • constantly updating the wiki
Jan Prunk [SI]
  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money
Modulis [CA]

(Adrien Laurent)

  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money
AQUEOS [FR]

(Ghislain Adnet)

founded in 2004, AQUEOS is a company that offers hosting and server management. We use Linux-VServer to help manage hardware independant server farms for hosting.
  • using Linux-VServer
  • sponsoring kernel development
Psand [UK]

(Ben Green)

  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money
Daniel Lange [DE]
  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money
Roman Veselý [CZ]
  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money
Sonassi Hosting [UK]

(Benjamin Lessani)

  • using Linux-VServer
  • donating money

Developers, Maintainers and Staff

note: this does not include the Currently Active Developers.


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
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
  • developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
Mark Lawrence [AU]
  • developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
Micah Anderson [US]
  • maintaining up-to-date debian patches and userspace packages
Bastian Blank [DE]
  • integrating debian Linux-VServer kernels
James Boddington [AU]
  • debugging und testing alpha/x86/sparc64
  • testing kernel and tools (including dietlibc)
  • testing filesystem xid tagging and attributes
  • testing COW link breaking and vroot
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

Honorable Mentions

Nathan Faber
  • doing a lot of detailed SMP vserver debugging
  • compiling and testing hundreds of vserver kernels
Jonathan Sambrook

(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]
  • 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]

(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
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]

(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
Martin Koniczek [DE]
  • isolating a nasty issue with the page fault array
Rich Estill [US]
  • building the Fedora Core 4 kernels and util-vserver packages on x86_64
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [PL]
  • tracking down a tricky posix timer issue in vs2.x

... and all we forgot so far, for forgiving us!

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