Kudos, Credits, and Resources:

StrongBox is not just built by us. It's a a collection of works by innumerable people. All that we've done at Helmer Computing is put everything together into a useable package, and written the pieces that manage configurations and installations.

In no particular order:

The Linux kernel, “by” Linus Torvalds, is currently being actively developed by hundreds of developers. See www.kernel.org for more details.

The Linux-vserver patches and the util-vserver utilties are invaluable to being able to create strongbox as it is today. See http://www.linux-vserver.org/ for details.

The reiserfs filesystem has proven invaluable. See www.namesys.com for details.

Thanks to Klaus Knopper for building the Knoppix system, which has both served as inspiration, and a resource for various pieces of software glue that make StrongBox as flexible as it is today.

The free software foundation's gnu utilities at www.gnu.org is invaluable to any gnu/linux distribution.

The Gentoo Linux distribution, which is used to build the core StrongBox OS, is absolutely invaluable to the project: see www.gentoo.org.

The Debian distribution is the primary platform for building StrongBox bundles, and is also invaluable in their maintenance of certain packages, such as the cobalt Linux kernel patchset, and various groupware packages. See www.debian.org for details.

The mysql project, at www.mysql.com, is of course useful. As is postgresql at www.postgres.org, and the openldap project, at www.openldap.org.

And, particularly, thanks to people for writing the glue projects that make my job so much easier. Things like webcyradm, php, webmin, and the like are utterly indispensable to me. I'm going to try and start listing all these projects here, as I go, but there's so many. So, thanks to all the open source developers out there who've built utilities that make this system possible.

An incredible number of people have written utilities that I'm using as part of the StrongBox system. I really wish I could give them all credit here, but I don't have room. On the StrongBox distribution CD, in with the sources and documentation, you'll find much, much more information on this.

Thank you to all the beta-testers who've been helping me out with this project. Thank you to all my friends for offering me support and advice along the way.

Thanks to swivel for bearing a bunch of my alpha testing.

And, lastly, thanks to my family, for making this all possible, in many ways: money, education, and just plain putting up with my crazy ideas.

Kudos everyone!

Liam Helmer