SuperLinux Encyclopedia

Note: This list very incomplete. (And seldom updated.)

All the folks who developed the various flavors of commercial UNIX.
(Except the ones who could have developed more standards earlier, and didn't.)
Richard Stallman: Leader of GNU and founder of the Free Software Foundation.
Also the father of the world's best general-purpose programmer's editor, Emacs.
James Gosling: Important in Unix-Emacs, NeWS window system, Java, other great things.
All the folks who contributed to GNU SW.
All the folks who contributed to BSD SW.
Linus Torvalds: Leader of Linux's kernel and device driver development.
KERNEL CREDITS - list of the kind folks that brought you the kernel and drivers.
Patrick Volkerding: Leader of Slackware. (the first very popular distribution)
tbd: Leader of Netscape. (for giving us something decent to browse with)
Mark Ewing (?): Leader of Red Hat.
Phil Hughes: Leader of SSC; the Linux Journal publisher.
tbd: Leader of Caldera.
Mark Bolzern (?): Leader of WGS. First to get Linux CD packages into your bookstore?
Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman: Authors of "Running Linux".
tbd O'Reilly: Leader of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.; Unix and Linux books publisher.
Leaders (tbd) of S.u.S.E, ...
tbd: John (Maddog) Hall (DEC Alpha), the sendmail guy, Larry Wall (perl),
John Ousterhout is the 1997 winner of the ACM System Software Award for his work on Tcl/Tk.
David Korn (father of the "ksh" shell)
AT&T has a list of their important fellows.

Linux-friendly hardware & software suppliers: See Compatibility and Corporations.
Linux Help page at Diamond (The only Linux support I've seen from a modem manufacturer. Reward them.)
AMD: Bringing down the cost of CPUs.
Cyrix & National Semiconductor: Bringing down the cost of CPUs.
National Semi had the best early 32-bit microprocessor. Too bad they're having to play copy-cat with the Intel monstrosity.
Digital Equipment Company: Put in a lot of effort ($) to develop Linux for the Alpha CPU.
Epson: Makes consumer-priced printers relatively friendly to non-M$ OSes.
Gigabyte motherboards: have made BIOS changes just for Linux to work like other BIOS as the kernel expects.
Netscape: Gave us all something decent to browse with.
The Linux Pioneers: Caldera, Red Hat, Slackware, SSC, S.u.S.E., WGS, Yggdrasil, who've I forgot?
All Linux Journal advertisers: Most listed in here.
AT&T Worldnet (ISP) has a webpage that instructs users how to set up from a Linux computer.

Last Modified 19-Apr-1999