IAN MURDOCK


'Ian Murdock' (born April 28, 1973, in Konstanz, Germany) is the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and the commercial Linux distributor Progeny. He currently works for Sun Microsystems "head[ing] up operating system platform strategy"[1]; previously he served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation and is chair of the Linux Standard Base, the Linux platform interoperability standard. He lives in Indiana, U.S..
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 himself and his then-girlfriend Debra, now his wife, thus Deb(ra) and Ian.

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References


1. ''Joining Sun'', Ian Murdock’s Weblog, March 19, 2007

See also



List of Debian Project leaders

External links



ianmurdock.com (with Weblog)


About me page

LinuxJournal article on Debian from 1994

Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2005

Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006

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