On 04/01/2018 10:29 PM, Ag, D.E Chatzimanikas wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, at 04:37 Gerard Beekmans wrote:
Hi all,
I will be performing server upgrades tomorrow (Wed Mar 28)
Bruce will assist as well with the testing so that we can make quick work of it.
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Hi Gerard and Bruce,
Many thanks once more for your work and your dedication to the project,
after so many years (you always (both) took care of these little details).
And since Gerard, you was also the initializator :) and Bruce our undisputed
leader author (together with Matthew and Randy) I think that the Linux
world owes you a lot, since our document had always been a reference.
But please, allow me to remember (and of top of my head and sortly as I can)
a couple of historical moments (from those I lived) and give some proper
credits.
I think first that, we owe a lot to Ryan and to Greg, who both at some point in
time, solved many of the low level toolchain issues and helped us to stabilize
the instructions.
But thanks should also goes to Alexander (with its UTF8 branch) and to Jeremy
(for his alphabetical branch) and both for the LFS CD.
Also to our xsl magician, Manuel (who dissapeared suddenly and without ever
learn
something about him (does anybody know?)).
To Pierre Labastie:
(and about Jhalfs)
It was IIRC Jeremy, who prototyped, but it was Manuel who wrote most of Jhalfs.
(as a historical moment it was also Manuel responsible for my first contribution
to an open source project (the code that calculates SBU's and the final formated
output)).
Also thanks should go to Archaic and later to Robert for HLFS who were
the only ones that I know of, that contributed to the hardening issues.
But also we should remember the historical CLFS split (who personally I never
show it like this and it wasn't) and should thank them for provided those
quite complex methods to build CLFS (I think the main contributors
besides Jim and Ryan, were Joe and Chris (from those I knew)). In any
case they never stopped (with the one way or another to contribute back to LFS)
and they always considered as a part of the crew. Evolution is hard and it cause
hard feelings sometimes, however these should be now thing of the past.
But our best credits should go to two of us, who still (after (again) so many
years) contribute to the Books.
Thanks DJ and Ken.
Also thanks to the uncountable contributors to the books or to our support and
our development lists (like Bryan and Simon) but especially to our Sir Richard!
(but there so many to name them individually, so forgive this old :) man brain)
But the last one is reserved for Dan Nicholson, where I still believe that
we could use :) his passion much wiser. The exact goes for Alex of course.
(cc them)
Dedicated to the memory of Andy who left early.
To the others:
It is strictly forbidden to die.
Happy Eastern Time to Everybody.
I can only second that. Thanks to lfs and blfs, everybody with enough
patience and a bit of brain can still build their own Linux system, the
way they want, thus keeping the open source spirit alive in real
practice. It is absolutely unthinkable for me to have been able to build
my own Linux without those two books, and all the effort from everybody
involved.
Thanks a million times.
Tim
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