Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock (born April 28, 1973) is the founder of the Debian distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
Life and career
Ian Ashley Murdock was born in Konstanz, Germany on April 28, 1973. He wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 while a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1996. He named Debian after his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian).[1] On joining Sun, he led Project Indiana, which he described as "taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris", making a full OpenSolaris distribution with GNOME and userland tools from GNU plus a network-based package management system.[2] From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.[3]
Murdock is currently Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at ExactTarget, based in Indianapolis.[4]
See also
References
External links
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Ian Murdock, http://ianmurdock.com .
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"Debian", LinuxJournal, 1994, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2841 .
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(MP3) Interview, 2005, http://tllts.org/mirror.php?fname=tllts_83-05-11-05.mp3
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(MP3) Interview, Jeff Ratliff, 2006-07-04, http://www.jeffratliff.org/mirror/TLLTS/mp3/tllts_134-lwe-04-07-06.mp3
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(video) Community One Keynote Address, Sun, 5 May 2008, http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0505/commone/ .
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American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur |
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(1973-04-28) April 28, 1973 (age 39)
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Konstanz, Germany
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