From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 5 20:00:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F5A16A4CF; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from smtp1.powertech.no (smtp1.powertech.no [195.159.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E070D43D4C; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:00:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from [192.168.123.167] (s1013-0092.dsl.start.no [195.159.196.188]) by smtp1.powertech.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E1088B2; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:00:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <442C3DA5.9010901@freebsd.org> References: <442C3DA5.9010901@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <47A547CC-E50B-4F66-AD35-4382926F27B2@nordahl.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Frode Nordahl Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:00:28 +0200 To: Colin Percival X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:00:38 -0000 On 30. mar. 2006, at 22.20, Colin Percival wrote: > Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my > first > major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD > committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and > become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from > being a graduate student at Oxford University -- busy writing my > thesis > -- to a researcher at Simon Fraser University -- busy doing research > and writing papers -- my "to do" list of FreeBSD-related work has > continued growing, and I have now come to realize that some of the > items on that list will probably never be finished until I get a > chance > to work full-time on FreeBSD. I would like to take the chance to thank you for your work for FreeBSD! freebsd-update and portsnap are welcome innovations that make managing a large number of FreeBSD servers easier! I think the binary patch concept has enormous potential, and I look forward for the fruits FreeBSD will gather from it in the future. (My wet dream is freebsd-update for installed ports). I have to ask, if the fundraise succeeds, will some time be spent on providing freebsd-update support for amd64? :-) Frode Nordahl frode@nordahl.net