Credits

On this page, you will find a list of people who have contributed to ttylinux so far. It is kept in chronological order. You don't need to provide code to be listed here, anything that results in a change in the distribution ends up in being mentioned here.

Authors

Maintainer

Pascal Schmidt: came up with the original idea and maintained the distribution ever since.

Contributors

Adrian Davey: provided tips about making the distribution even smaller.
Douglas Bollinger: found a few bugs and created a spin-off distribution called TTY-Opener.
Matt Bucknall: suggested a couple of documentation improvements about the kernel requirements of the distribution.
Kevin J. Walchko: initiated a rewrite of the initscript system in time for the 1.18 release.
Harry Otten: provided improvements to the firewalling script in time for the 2.0 release.
Kivilcim Hindistan: suggested providing a fully bootable version of ttylinux. The first ISO was released for version 2.6 of the distribution.
Bonny Gijzen: requested not to rewrite the PPP configuration files at every bootup.
Oliver Friedrich: initiated an attempt to make the distribution run better on devfs-enabled kernels.
Joni Jarvenkyla: reported that the ISO version was using an incorrect keyboard and timezone setup, which was fixed in time for the 3.0 release.
Maurice Kinal: provided some useful insight about dhcpcd and hosts the distribution homepage.
Arne Thomaßen: suggested to include the retawq text mode browser in the distribution.
Nile Geisinger: provided a sample implementation of a modular build system.
Andy Alt: notified me about a missing /bin/badblocks program.
John Wittkoski: suggested improvements to binary package building.
Tim Freeman: reported a bug in the mkttyiso script used for generating ISO images.
Paul G. Rogers: inquired about e3pi pico emulation of the e3 editor.
Ronald Weist: notified me about problems with the dhcpcd shutown procedure.
Phillip T. George: reported missing shadow support for passwd in the 5.1 release.