
1.8. Acknowledgments
This document has passed through many hands. I don't know if he wrote the first version, but in 1993 Ed Carp
was maintaining it. In August of 1994, FRiC (Boy of Destiny) took over. After he fell off the face of the
planet in late 1995 or early 1996 (and we all miss him from IRC, I might add), Patrick Reijnen took over
(sometime in 1997) and continued to maintain this document until late 1999.
Recent versions of this document contained the following:
Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTO's, many things here are
shamelessly stolen from their works; to FRiC, Zane Healy and Ed Carp, the original authors
of this HOWTO; and to everyone else who sent in updates and feedbacks. Special thanks to
Eric Boerner and lilo (the person, not the program) for the sanity checks. And thanks to Dan
Quinlan for the original SGML conversion.
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this document over the years.
In addition, I'd like to thank the many members of the Southern Illinois Linux Users Group and the Linux
Users of Central Illinois for giving me so many interesting problems to solve over the years, and, of course,
my wife Kara for putting up with me all these years. :−)
1.9. Revision History
The following is the revision history of this document since I (Steven Pritchard) took over maintenance.
Revision History
Revision 3.2.3 2005−07−12 Revised by: sjp
Fix link for AlphaLinux project. Add some laptop notes. Add information about the 3ware 9000−series cards.
Revision 3.2.2 2004−01−30 Revised by: sjp
Opteron/Athlon64 information added. Fixed up some of the video card entries. Add notes about 3ware
8000−series cards, SATA, and the WD drive "configuration update".
Revision 3.2.1 2002−11−12 Revised by: sjp
Replaced "commercial" with "proprietary" in most cases. (I should probably go one more step and make that
"proprietary, closed−source" or something similar. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.) Added
placeholder IEEE 1394 section. Updated various other sections. Thanks to Rick Moen for prompting this
revision with various updates and suggestions.
Revision 3.2.0 2002−08−13 Revised by: sjp
Removed a lot of cruft. Added information direct from pcmcia−cs.sourceforge.net on supported PCMCIA
cards. Added a section on DVD drives. Thanks to Tom Hanlin for pointing out that there was no mention of
them before. Replaced all references to metalab with ibiblio, and all references to linuxdoc.org with tldp.org.
Probably other changes I'm forgetting, which should teach me not to wait so long between releases.
Revision 3.1.5 2002−03−28 Revised by: sjp
Moved revision history to Introduction section. More dead link fixes and other corrections. Thanks to Lin
Hung−Ta, Silviu Tamasdan, and various others.
Revision 3.1.4 2002−02−17 Revised by: sjp
Added note about CRIS architecture. Updated WAN Cards section.
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