GNU Hurd: 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