Re: Information for the Reader's Digest

["Shanker R Swaminathan" <csewhiz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thought kanauj Sarcar would have also qualified- anyone remembers 2.3.43?
Shanker

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sudhakar Chandra" <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<alexandriabarton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [LIG] Information for the Reader's Digest


> Alexandria Barton-D'Souza proclaimed:
> > I'm an editor with the Indian edition of the Reader's Digest. In our
March
> > issue we are planning to run an article on Linus Torvalds,the creator of
the
> > Linux OS.
> > The article says that over the years, Indians have helped Torvalds and a
few
> > continue to do so. I have copied below that part of the article. We
would
> > like to localize the article by adding a few lines on who these Indians
are
> > and how they have contributed to Linux. Would any of you be able to help
us?
>
>
> Alexandria,
>
> Here are some of Indian sounding names I found in the
> /usr/src/linux/CREDITS file:
>
> N: Krishna Balasubramanian
> E: balasub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> D: Wrote SYS V IPC (part of standard kernel since 0.99.10)
>
> N: Arindam Banerji
> E: axb@xxxxxxxxxx
> D: Contributed ESDI driver routines needed to port LINUX to the PS/2 MCA.
> S: Department of Computer Science & Eng.
> S: University of Notre Dame
> S: Notre Dame, Indiana
> S: USA
>
> N: Kumar Gala
> E: kumar.gala@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> D: AltiVec PowerPC support
>
> N: Jaspreet Singh
> E: jaspreet@xxxxxxxxxxx
> W: www.sangoma.com
> D: WANPIPE drivers & API Support for Sangoma S508/FT1 cards
> S: Sangoma Technologies Inc.,
> S: 1001 Denison Street
> S: Suite 101
> S: Markham, Ontario L3R 2Z6
> S: Canada
>
> They are all people of Indian origin.
>
> Other Indians who have contributed indirectly to Linux include:
>
> * Debian developers: Manoj Srivastava, Anand Kumria, Vaidhyanathan
> Mayilrangam (and your's truly to a teeny tiny extent).  Debian is the
> single largest effort to produce a free, volunteer driven distribution.
>
> * Indian Linux stalwarts: Atul Chitnis, Raju Mathur, Gurunandan Bhat etc.
> have contributed significantly to the popularization of Linux in India.
>
> Thaths
> --
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> Marge: You've signed my name lots of times!
> Homer: But this isn't like a loan application or a will!
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