Who Makes Scientific Linux?

Scientific Linux has received contributions from many people and organizations over the years, including participants from Fermilab, CERN, DESY and ETHZ. We’ve tried to give credit for these community members here.

These lists are sorted by last name and may include some specific contributions. If we forgot to list you, please let us know! We promise, it was a mistake rather than a deliberate omission.

Project Founder

  • Connie Sieh (Fermilab)

Major Sponsors

Build Hardware, Bandwidth, and Website

Major Developers

Sorted by institution, then last name

  • Urs Beyerle (ETHZ)
  • Stephan Wiesand (DESY)
  • Bonnie King (Fermilab)
  • Pat Riehecky (Fermilab)

Emeritus Developers

  • Connie Sieh (Fermilab)

Former Developers

  • Jan Ivan (CERN) – SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6
  • Jarek Polok (CERN) – SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6
  • Troy Dawson (Fermilab) – SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6
  • Jason Harrington (Fermilab) – SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6
  • Tyler Parsons (Fermilab) – SL5, SL6

Former Sponsors

  • CERN – SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6

Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD

  • Urs Beyerle (ETHZ)

Scientific Linux 7 release

  • Bonnie King (internal tools)
  • Pat Riehecky (SL_* packages, release manager)
  • Rennie Scott (project management)
  • Connie Sieh (build tools, install tree)
  • Suzanne Thompson (artwork)
  • Stephan Wiesand (openafs)

Scientific Linux 6 release

  • Troy Dawson (artwork, buildsys)
  • Tyler Parsons (internal tools)
  • Bonnie King (internal tools)
  • Pat Riehecky (buildsys, SL_enable_serialconsole, release manager)
  • Connie Sieh (anaconda)
  • William R. Somsky (artwork)
  • Shawn Thompson (artwork)
  • Stephan Wiesand (openafs)

Scientific Linux 5 release

  • Urs Beyerle (915resolution, ipw3945, iwlwifi-4965, madwifi, tidy)
  • Troy Dawson (artwork, icewm, ipw2100, ndiswrapper, numpy, r1000, SL_afs_no_dynroot)
  • Wolfgang Friebel (alpine)
  • Kevin Hill (SL_no_colorls, SL_sendmail_accept)
  • Igor Kresnik (documentation)
  • Martyn Plummer (R)
  • Pat Riehecky (various build tools, errata)
  • Paul A. Rombouts (fuse)
  • Connie Sieh (anaconda)
  • Nicholas Soms (icewm)
  • William R. Somsky (artwork)
  • Axel Thimm (ipw2200)
  • Steve Timm (SL_enable_serialconsole)
  • Dag Wieers (graphvis, pine)
  • Stephan Wiesand (gv, openafs)
  • Dan Yocum (SL_password_for_singleuser)

Scientific Linux 4 release

  • Troy Dawson (artwork, icewm, ipw2100, madwifi, ndiswrapper, r1000)
  • Gregory Harris (SL_disable_print_notification)
  • Kevin Hill (SL_no_colorls, SL_sendmail_accept)
  • Gene Oleynik (artwork)
  • Martyn Plummer (R)
  • Jarek Polok (apt, ipw3945, openafs)
  • David Putz (artwork)
  • Pat Riehecky (various build tools, errata)
  • Paul A. Rombouts (fuse, SL_pc_speaker)
  • Connie Sieh (anaconda, artwork)
  • William R. Somsky (artwork)
  • Steve Timm (SL_enable_serialconsole)
  • Axel Thimm (ipw2200, madwifi)
  • Al Thomas (artwork)
  • Stephan Wiesand (openafs)
  • Dag Wieers (pine)

Scientific Linux 3 release

  • Connie Sieh (anaconda, artwork)
  • Troy Dawson (artwork)