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Acknowledgements

We wish a warm ``Thank GNU'' to everybody who has helped in the development of the Hurd. Here is a categorized list of people who made significant contributions. If we have omitted anybody, we apologize... please let us know so that we can update this list!

Hurd software

Mark Kettenis

many GNU C library and Hurd bug fixes and updates

Miles Bader

paid by the FSF to help make the Hurd usable as a standalone system, wrote several important translators

OKUJI Yoshinori

many gnumach bug fixes and updates

Roland McGrath

paid by the FSF to design and implement the GNU C library for the Hurd, as well as many Hurd features, current Hurd C library maintainer

Thomas Bushnell, BSG (formerly Michael I. Bushnell)

paid by the FSF as primary architect of the Hurd, current Hurd maintainer

UCHIYAMA Yasushi

ported XFree86 to the Hurd

Debian GNU/Hurd

Gordon Matzigkeit

paid by the FSF as a liason from GNU to Debian

Marcus Brinkmann

bootstrapped the Debian GNU/Hurd base set and many packages, liason from Debian to GNU

Santiago Vila

support for cross-compiling Debian packages

Documentation

Derek Upham

wrote the original GNU Hurd FAQ

Gordon Matzigkeit

reorganized and updated the GNU Hurd Reference Manual for release 0.3

Matthew C. Vernon

wrote the ``Idiot's Guide'' for getting started with the Hurd

Matthias Pfisterer

reorganized and updated the web site in early 1999

Stephen L. Favor

current FAQ maintainer

Trent Fisher

wrote the original version of the Hurd pages

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Updated: 30 Nov 1999 gord