Here's a very incomplete list of the people who've helped to make Slamd64 the distribution it is today, approximately in reverse chronological order: Who Why ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Centre for Scientific Providing space on anorien.warwick.ac.uk, the Computing, University primary Slamd64 mirror of Warwick Carlos Corbacho A huge amount of help in bug finding and squishing Eric Hameleers General help Michael Urban Monetary donation Steven Mitchell Monetary donation Peter Christy Monetary donation Daniel Franke Monetary donation Gebrs Duportail Monetary donation Andrea Lee Monetary donation Pieter Sartain Monetary donation Jakob Viketof Monetary donation Damion Yates Monetary donation Henk Brunsting Monetary donation Gabriel Cavallerio Donated an assortment of SCSI hardware Larhzu Made an easily-portable emacs.SlackBuild :) Maurizio Taverna & Very supportive, employed me for a week working IT Business SPA with Slamd64, donated an Acer Aspire 1522WLMi laptop (Athlon64 3000+). QEmu development team Adding x86_64 support made it possible for me to convert the initrd binaries to 64-bit without running out of blank cds Regulars on freenode Help with technical issues both with KDE and ##slackware and completely unrelated. #kde-devel Jordan Bradley Continual good advice :) Nick Sutcliffe Uploading Slamd64 ISOs when I have problems with bandwidth SlackSec "Staff" Good advice, and help with some issues Andreas Liebschner Help with installer issues Edward Emmott Donated the slamd64.com domain Patrick Volkerding How could I port Slackware if it didn't exist in the first place? :D ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks go to the Linux From Scratch, SUSE, Debian-pure64, and Gentoo-amd64 distributions for providing patches for some of the compatability issues. Thanks also to Matt Hayes (http://slamdpack.sf.net), PCXZ (contributor to http://www.linuxpackages.net), and all the other people who provide 3rd-party packages (this does not mean that I officially endorse either site at this time). Many thanks also to all the mirrors, all the people who send in bug reports (especially with fixes ;), and all the people who take the time to write an email saying "thanks".