JöRG SCHILLING

'Jörg Schilling' is a computer programmer known especially for his work on compact disc burning software and as an advocate of Solaris and OpenSolaris. He studied originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. He is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin where his main project is the BerliOS open source web site^[1]
Schilling is a long time open source supporter and started 1982 the first free tar implementation.^[2] His work over many years on CD burning software culminated in the cdrtools package, which includes ''cdrecord'' and the ancillary programs ''mkisofs'' and ''cdda2wav''. This package supports most CD/DVD/BluRay recorders and runs on most operating systems. It is the backend for the great majority of CD burning GUI and other frontend programs in the free software world, including popular GUI frontends such as X-CD-Roast, K3b, and the CD-burning plugin of Nautilus.

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1. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/article/2005-05-06_profile__j_rg_schilling/
2. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=12591488&forum_id=115581

External links

★ Profile at OpenSolaris

★ CD Record web site

★ Debian announcement

★ Slashdot discussion of Debian fork