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Note: As of 2010, the following section is several years out-of-date. Donations from the past several years appear here.
The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would like to publicly thank them here!
Contributors to the central server project:
The following individuals and businesses made it possible for the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine, which has replaced freefall.FreeBSD.org at one point, by donating the following items:
Ade Barkah <[email protected]> and his employer,
Hemisphere Online, donated a
Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPU
ASA Computers donated a Tyan 1662 motherboard.
Joe McGuckin <[email protected]> of ViaNet Communications donated a Kingston ethernet controller.
Jack O'Neill <[email protected]>
donated an NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
card.
Ulf Zimmermann <[email protected]> of Alameda Networks donated 128MB of memory, a 4 Gb disk drive and the
case.
Direct funding:
The following individuals and businesses have generously contributed direct funding to the project:
Annelise Anderson <[email protected]>
Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>
Sean Eric Fagan <[email protected]>
Don Scott Wilde
Gianmarco Giovannelli <[email protected]>
Josef C. Grosch <[email protected]>
Robert T. Morris
Chuck Robey <[email protected]>
Kenneth P. Stox <[email protected]> of
Imaginary Landscape,
LLC.
Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk <[email protected]>
Laser5 of Japan (a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD CDROMs).
Fuki Shuppan Publishing Co. donated a portion of their profits from Hajimete no FreeBSD (FreeBSD, Getting started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects.
ASCII Corp. donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related books to the FreeBSD project.
Yokogawa Electric Corp has generously donated significant funding to the FreeBSD project.
Siemens AG via Andre
Albsmeier <[email protected]>
Chris Silva <[email protected]>
Hardware contributors:
The following individuals and businesses have generously contributed hardware for testing and device driver development/support:
BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and 486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our development work, to say nothing of the network access and other donations of hardware resources.
Compaq has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD Project. Among the many generous donations are 4 AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20, AlphaServer 2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz Personal Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations, and more! These machines are used for release engineering, package building, SMP development, and general development on the Alpha architecture.
TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for debugging the diskless code.
Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive currently used in freefall.
Chuck Robey <[email protected]> contributed
his floppy tape streamer for experimental work.
Larry Altneu <[email protected]>, and Wilko Bulte <[email protected]>,
provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to improve the wt driver.
Ernst Winter (Deceased) contributed a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver.
Tekram Technologies sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards. They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free operating systems available from their FTP server ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/.
Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books, including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2 and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with information on how to safely use the advanced features of the latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot!
Christoph Kukulies <[email protected]> donated an FX120 12
speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver development.
Mike Tancsa <[email protected]> donated four various
ATM PCI cards in order to help increase support of these cards as well as help
support the development effort of the netatm ATM stack.
Special contributors:
BSDi (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM) has donated almost more than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project' section of the FreeBSD Handbook for more details). In particular, we would like to thank them for the original hardware used for freefall.FreeBSD.org, our primary development machine, and for thud.FreeBSD.org, a testing and build box. We are also indebted to them for funding various contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted use of their T1 connection to the Internet.
The interface
business GmbH, Dresden has been patiently supporting Jörg Wunsch
<[email protected]> who has often preferred
FreeBSD work over paid work, and used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet
Internet connection whenever his private connection became too slow or flaky
to work with it...
Berkeley Software Design, Inc. has contributed their DOS emulator code to the remaining BSD world, which is used in the doscmd command.
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