Several people are closely involved with the inners of Linux and open source applications. Our aim is to give those Belgian people and projects credit in this section.

People

Some bright people are helping Linus a bit, these are our Belgian kernel-hackers.

• Geert Uytterhoeven aka. Compu
  works as a computer scientist at the University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven) and is commonly known as the framebuffer-guy. He also wrote m68k and powerpc code and is a developer for the XFree-project.
• Peter De Schrijver aka. p2
  works at Alcatel in Belgium writing ATM drivers. He was involved in writing MCA and ISA Tokenring drivers, he's now involved in writing the PCI-stuff too.
• Wim Coekaerts aka. seklos
  left beautiful Belgium to move to ugly Silicon Valley. He's partly responsible for Oracle for Linux as he's part of the Raw Iron Group (New Platform Development) inside Oracle.

Software

Lots of software is needed for Linux, if you're not happy with some software, code it yourself. Start from the original code and add features, mail them to the authors or start a new source-tree, only this way software will grow better.

• 3DOM - A 3D object modeler
• Free Pascal - A free Pascal alternative
• Garp - A gratituous ARP implementation
• Objective C port
• Recover - An undelete utility
• SniffIt - A network diagnose and sniff utility

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