Quoting Allan Latham <alatham@flexsys-group.de>: > Hi Herbert > > A big thank you from me for all you've done on Vserver. > > Also to Ben who makes the kernels I use. I get a fair amount of appreciation for the kernels I roll. It probably ends up being about 50 hours per year of work directly on the build system. About 10 of those are voluntary. In the end, I get paid an hourly rate for most of it. The people I consult for are happy to be making this indirect contribution to Linux-Vserver. What I do is very small amount compared the Herbert and Daniel's contributions. How many hours would you say you'd put in in the last year Herbert and Daniel? How many of those are voluntary? Thankyou Herbert, we build our business on the back of the patches you turn out. I'm not really literary enough to express well in words how important that is to us, and by us I mean the big companies, the little companies and me personally that have all been helped massively by the Vserver kernel patch and util-vserver. Amazing work, many many thanks. Words of encouragement for Herbert are important, but we need to remember that a community gets its strength from the sum of the input of all its members, and if one of the founder members is feeling downtrodden, and with good reason, we should all step up to help more. Here, IMHO are the areas that would have the most impact for Linux-Vserver: * Testing kernels and new features * Improving documentation * libvirt support * Providing hard cash and hardware If you want a feature or a level of support you aren't getting, if there's a boundary to adopting vserver put up by lack of documentation, lack of code, whatever it is, get your company to pay you, or pay for, that feature. This is the lightest, simplest, most functional virtual server environment of its kind that Linux has at the moment, so lets all give some more input. My own personal project for this year is to get a kernel built using the Debian build system, for better integration into that OS. I really want to help Linux-Vserver overcome some adoption hurdles this year. Cheers, Ben